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...biggest target was the rugged, bomb-pocked Demilitarized Zone, where two North Vietnamese divisions have been massing for several months and funneling forces over the border. Last week one battalion of the 26th Marine Regiment had been searching for infiltrating forces for two days, when the infiltrators suddenly turned up under cover of fog and attacked two Marine positions. To back up the Marines, B-52 bombers swarmed in from Guam for the second straight week and blasted the area around the zone...
...tricky combat terrain, U.S. troops have to develop all types of tricky tactics. A 32-man reconnaissance company of the 9th Cavalry Regiment has a new technique for getting out of their helicopters even before they land. In unsecured areas where the enemy may be lying in wait, the troops clamber out on the skids, and as the chopper flutters down to five or six feet above the landing area, they jump. They call themselves the "Headhunters...
...days before the Okinawa invasion, a kamikaze fireballed into the troopship Henrico, killing or wounding 225 members of the regiment. Rockefeller was the senior surviving army officer, and though seriously burned about the face and hands-it cost him his mustache and six weeks in hospital-he assumed command until help arrived the next day. He came out of service in 1946 wearing a lieutenant colonel's silver leaves and a bronze star with oakleaf cluster...
...Many Gooks. In a search-and-destroy mission in la Drang Valley, within sight of the Cambodian border, an American unit last week ran headlong into a powerful force of just such men, the freshly infiltrated 101C North Vietnamese Regiment. Once again, la Drang became "the Valley of Death"-though the battle was on a far smaller scale. Lured into an ambush when they pursued a small group of Communist troops that they had sighted, two platoons of the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile), the division that inflicted last year's la Drang defeat on the Communists, were heavily outnumbered...
...bombers and fighter-bomber sorties that passed the 1,000 level. Attleboro continued to turn up Red rice in huge quantities, by last week had garnered a record 2,366 tons, could claim over 1,000 soldiers of the Viet Cong 9th Division and the North Vietnamese 101st Regiment killed in the intensive month-long campaign...