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...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Anderson Platoon. An excellent study of young Americans at war, which is being repeated by popular request...
...just as suddenly over a company of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division near the Ia Drang Valley 40 miles to the south. The fight began after a cluster of NVA troopers decoyed the Americans into a trap two miles from the Cambodian border. The North Vietnamese concentrated on one platoon at a time and succeeded in cutting off each in succession. The American company commander fell in the first minutes of the battle. The fighting was at such close quarters that one U.S. squad leader strangled a Communist soldier with his bare hands and plunged his bowie knife into...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Anderson Platoon." A harsh but compassionate study of young Americans at war produced by Pierre Schoendoerffer for French TV (TIME, Feb. 17). This is a closeup of Captain Joseph B. Anderson, 24, a West Pointer and a Negro, as he leads his soldiers through the Viet Nam war in the fall...
...senior year, was elected president of the student body. After graduating magna cum laude, Joe went back into the Marine Corps for two years, feeling that "I had a blemish on my record and wanted to make up for that." He did. "This time I became platoon leader, highest scorer in athletic competition and changed my general to an honorable discharge...
Kiotsuke! The Japanese drill sergeant called his platoon to attention so earnestly that his voice broke and the whole outfit burst into laughter. There was nothing for the sergeant to do but grin and bear it. For this was no ordinary bunch of boots, supposed to tremble at a drill instructor's every whim. The 70 young men in ill-fitting fatigues who stumbled through close-order drill at an army camp near Tokyo were all employees of the Tokyo Mutual Life Insurance Co. Their Taiken Nyu-tai (draft experience) was scheduled to last exactly three days...