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...occasional impulsiveness. Of the line commanders, both the III Corps and the Capital Military Region are in the hands of generals born in North Viet Nam-and close friends of Ky. The Mekong Delta, or the IV Corps, is the domain of Major General Dan Van Quang, 36, a rough soldier whose girth and ready laughter have earned him the nickname "Jolly Green Giant" from his American advisers...
First off the mark were Navy planes from the U.S.S. Ranger, which dropped a bridge twelve miles southwest of Dong Hoi and blasted a ferry landing near Quang Khe. Only minutes later, on target-a highway-ferry complex at Thanh Hoa-were Air Force F-105s, and another Air Force wing was soon battering a cluster of barges with 20-mm. cannon. The first day's bombing took a toll of three U.S. planes shot down by antiaircraft fire-one measure of the use to which Hanoi had put the pause...
Never before had the Communists been hit so hard and in so many places at one time. From south of Saigon to coastal Quang Ngai, over 25,000 allied troops stalked the Reds in six separate operations (see map). It was far and away the biggest battle week...
...tactic; but its review of the military history revealed a stunning ignorance of facts. It stated that the allies "have never ventured into areas under heavy Communist influence which comprise the largest part of South Vietnam." This if flatly contradicted by last week's operation in Binh Dinh and Quang Nai provinces, as well as previous operations such as that in the Delta's "Iron Triangle" which was a Communist stronghold since 1950. The editorial stated that "All of our successful operations have been confined to the central plains area, a region settled largely by Catholic refugees from the North...
...contrast, ground and air combat in the South is being greatly intensified. Last week, while U.S. Army units fanned out in three big search-and-destroy operations, thousands of marines, intent on trapping a hard-core Viet Cong division, stormed a beach south of Quang Ngai in the biggest amphibious assault mounted by the U.S. since the Inchon landing in Korea...