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...time after time, they in turn told their Commander in Chief that they were ready to return to Viet Nam-though most all too clearly were not. "I'm in good shape," insisted Major Boyd Parsons, 43, an adviser attached to a Vietnamese infantry regiment, who had lost one eye and part of the other, as the President pinned a Purple Heart on the left collar of his pajamas. "There's no problem at all. I'm ready to go back." The 1st Infantry Division's Pfc. Antonio Dell' Osso, 23, who had been torn...
...constituent assembly to decide. But, personally, I would like to see all the generals back with their units as soon as possible. The army is not being used in full strength now against the Communists. Rather it is being exploited for political purposes. An example is the regiment of the Seventh Division that is now in Saigon. I suppose its primary mission is to check on demonstrations, but it must have other missions. For example, there are many rumors that Ky intends to put Thieu out of power, or that Thieu intends to put Ky out of power...
Elsewhere, other elements of Operation Abilene fared better. As the operation concluded at week's end, units of the Big Red One, the Royal Australian Regiment and New Zealand Artillery Battalion counted a total of 59 enemy killed, 22 captured, and a 900-sq.-mi. area cleared of Viet Cong-at least for the time being. That left two major sweeps still in progress: Operation Nevada, a search-and-destroy mission by several U.S. Marine battalions in the Cape Batagan Peninsula, which has so far killed 42 Viet Cong, and Operation Fillmore, a sweep through Phu Yen province...
...Conduct of the 8th Co. of the 29th Regiment...
...36th. Appropriately enough, the most spectacular one last week belonged to the marines, who celebrated the anniversary of their arrival by virtually destroying the North Vietnamese 36th Regiment. The marines had been hunting the 36th for nearly three months when the Red command post was finally pinpointed between Chu Lai and Quang Ngai. Four battalions of marines and four of Vietnamese government troops closed with the 36th in Operation Utah, a three-day battle that gave the marines their toughest fighting in a year of war. The 36th was well disciplined and well armed with the new Chinese Communist...