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While reporters and photographers were at work, so was Cover Artist Henry Koerner, whose difficult assignment was to express the determined U.S. presence in a painting. For five days, he hopped from Bien Hoa to Nha Trang, Cam Ranh Bay, Qui Nhon and An Khe. "Fantastic! Marvelous!" he would exclaim, using his two favorite words as he moved from base installation to command post to hill lookout sketching all the while. At one point a helicopter almost landed on half a dozen of his drawings spread out on the grass. "Please, please!" Koerner shouted at the whirling chopper Save...
...favor of the allies, a clear reflection of the fact that it is now the U.S. and Saigon that have the initiative and the guerrillas the defensive. Moreover, the U.S. is constantly adding to its variety of offensive capabilities: fortnight ago, 15 miles south of Qui Nhon, a U.S. Marine raiding force in battalion strength stormed ashore from assault boats of the Seventh Fleet's amphibious task force, swept three coastal areas in Operation Dagger Thrust. Though the marines nabbed few V.C. this time, Dagger Thrust is a valuable new tactic.Since the task force's troops are always...
Fire & Metal. The Viet Cong were still toying with Phase 3 here and there. Twice within five days they assembled V.C. and North Vietnamese army regulars in regimental numbers and struck at government units along Route One north of Qui Nhon. Hardly had the shooting started when allied planes spewing fire and metal were on top of the Communists. The result: one of Hanoi's worst beatings of the war, with some 700 enemy dead in one engagement alone. At week's end the desperate Viet Cong tried another regimental assault, this time in the Delta, 30 miles...
...First Cav" is the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division, and it calls itself the "First Team"-the proud boast of a unit lineage that extends back through Korea and the Philippines to General Custer. Last week, by helilift direct from the U.S.S. Boxer and by road convoy from Qui Nhon, the First Team arrived in full force along Route...
...personnel" landed from two troopships, bringing the total to nearly 108,000-a fourth of them front-line marines and infantrymen. And at week's end the 15,800 men and 424 helicopters and planes of the Army's 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division began to disembark at Qui Nhon...