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...Gang. When a team fresh from Vung Tau in their black pajamas and black berets arrived in Binh Phuoc, an inland hamlet of rice and manioc farmers, they started from the ground up-and slowly-to win the confidence of the villagers. First project: drawing a crude map of the village, its homes and road accesses. They ate in the local restaurants as a means of getting acquainted, took guard duty at night, began a census, used part of their first paychecks to buy cigarettes to give away. Working in three-man cells, they visited huts during the day, passing...
Surprise also proved deadly in the jungles of Phuoc Tuy province, 40 miles east of Saigon, where a rifle company of the famed 1st Infantry Division ("the Big Red One") was ambushed by the Viet Cong while engaging in a 10,000 man search-and-destroy sweep called Operation Abilene. Outnumbered 4 to 1, the Americans fought amid the cries of their wounded until the Viet Cong finally withdrew. Army spokesmen described the U.S. losses as "heavy," indicating that at least a third of the 178-man company was killed or wounded...
...marines in and carry out a permanent pacification. As a result, some 1,500 villagers who do not want to wait for the return of the Communists have already been escorted out of the valley. The marines were soon off hunting anew, as helicopters poured thousands of leathernecks into Phuoc Valley in search of the Viet Cong 1st Regiment. Directly to the south, Operation White Wing, which so far has accounted for nearly 1,500 Communists killed, continued in smaller-scale, company-size operations by the 1st Air Cav. Though Double Eagle and White Wing failed to make contact with...
Songbe, a scruffy cluster of hamlets atop a bluff just 75 miles northeast of Saigon. As the capital of Phuoc Long province, Songbe (pop. 2,000) was a perfect target for the Communists, who would like to capture a governmental seat and proclaim their own "provisional government"-thus permitting Communist and nonaligned sympathizers to recognize their regime...
Farther to the north-the government outpost of Phuoc Chau-the Reds bit off more than they could handle. It was 3 a.m. when the Viet Cong opened up with a mortar barrage on the badly outnumbered garrison, which was there mainly to protect peasants in a nearby valley who had been paying forced tribute to the Reds. Supported by machine guns, the Communists stormed the barbed-wire perimeter, but were thrown back by the determined fire of the government forces...