Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their heavily entrenched quarry-some 500 regulars of the 6th NVA Regiment and Viet Cong units-seemed almost as much hunter as prey because of its formidable position. With their backs to the river at the Citadel's south ern end, the Communists fought from ramparts and arches protected by massive stone walls more than eight feet thick. Because of the Citadel's symbolic value to the Vietnamese, the allies first tried to retake it without the fire power punch of artillery and air strikes, but the dug-in Communists repelled wave after wave of assaults...
...Marine at Khe Sanh is Colonel David E. Lownds, 47, the mustachioed commander of the 26th Marine Regiment, who oversees the defense of the base from an underground bunker left over by its original French occupants. Sitting in a faded lawn chair, he seldom rests, night or day. He keeps constant watch over the nerve center, a labyrinth of whitewashed rooms lit by bare bulbs and bustling with staff officers and enlisted aides. Is he worried about the huge enemy concentration surrounding him? "Hell, no," says Lownds. "I've got Marines. My confidence isn't shaken...
...reporter and photographer for the 1st Infantry Division newspaper, and Specialist Fifth Class Franklin Passantino, 21, a muscular combat medic who has won both a Bronze and Silver Star and been recommended for another Bronze Star. Pawlaczyk and Passantino were with the 1st Battalion's 18th Regiment on Oct. 7, when it engaged in a fierce battle with the 271st Viet Cong Regiment nine miles northwest of the division's forward base at Lai Khe. During the burial of the 25 enemy dead, CBS Newsman Webster and Cameraman John Smith arrived on the scene from Saigon. Then-perhaps...
...Christmas gift for each of the men in South Viet Nam's 1st Regiment of the 1st Division, based just south of the Demilitarized Zone. It was the lightweight, fast-firing M-16 rifle, which packs far more punch than the older and heavier weapons that the ARVN (for Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troopers had been carrying. The 1st Regiment soon had a chance to use them. During the Christmas truce, its scouts spotted a large North Vietnamese force moving into the Quang Tri coastal flats. As soon as the truce had ended, the ARVN moved...
...field. How fanciful those reports can be was illustrated by the captured enemy summary on the battle of Loc Ninh. Instead of admitting disaster, the Communist commander reported that his forces destroyed "a U.S. armored battalion, a U.S. rifle battalion, a U.S. artillery battalion and one puppet (South Vietnamese) regiment." In fact, only 29 Americans and 21 Vietnamese were killed...