Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flynn of the flick is a dashing colonel of les paras (Anthony Quinn) who. is presented as a square-jawed Horatio Algeria. He organizes his regiment to fight a brush-fire war, and with the hesitant assistance of an aide de camp (Alain Delon) who falls in love with a rebel belle (Claudia Cardinale), he conducts a brilliant but brutal campaign in the interior. In the end he wins a general's stars but loses his self-respect...
There is no shortage of targets, for Charlie is all around Saigon. The 165-A Viet Cong "Capital Liberation" Regiment, comprising six full battalions, has encircled the city since 1954, mining roads, mounting raids and ambushing stray military vehicles. Keeping the V.C. out of the city is the assignment of the government's Regional Forces and Popular Forces-known to Americans as the "Riff and Piff...
Sweeping through a French-run rubber plantation called Binh Ba, 42 miles southeast of Saigon, looking for an ene my force that had mortared the Aussies' main headquarters, a 150-man company of the Royal Australian Regiment's 6th Battalion stumbled onto an estimated two Viet Cong battalions. In the first withering exchange of gunfire, all twelve men of the Australian leading group were killed or wounded. As a torrential rain began to fall, the Communists sought to tighten a noose around the Aussie company, charged in human-wave attacks that were repeatedly beaten back. The fighting...
...afternoon the 26-man platoon was airlifted to a tiny landing zone in the northern Ia Drang Valley near the Cambodian border, where a North Vietnamese regiment had been spotted. No sooner had four of the six choppers unloaded than an enemy ambush opened up from the surrounding jungle. Most of the men were cut down in their tracks. Three overran one enemy machine-gun nest, only to be chopped up by another. "Sergeant Shockey," the platoon's first sergeant called out, "the commander's dead, and I'm dying. Take over the platoon." Moments later, Sergeant...
...famed knack for survival. As leathery and almost as prickly as Vinegar Joe, he came to be known among his troops as "Cider Joe." A 1933 West Point graduate, Joe Stilwell won his combat spurs as a colonel in Burma campaign headquarters and as commander of the 23rd Infantry Regiment in Korea. From 1962 to 1964, he commanded the U.S. Support Group in Viet Nam, earning frowns from higher-ups for spending as much time manning machine guns and riding helicopters as he did at his Saigon desk. On one occasion, Stilwell helped carry out the wounded after being trapped...