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...wounded even after machine-gun fire chopped down a tree he was using for cover on that terrible night in the la Drang Valley. Of the 21 men whom Reid treated, only one died. Says Captain William Shucart of St. Louis, surgeon for the 1st Cavalry's 7th Regiment, 2nd Battalion: "I was pinned down elsewhere, and Reid treated the wounded strictly on his own. He gave blood and antibiotics and patched wounds-all that I or any other doctor could have done, and he did them darned near as well. He's an amazing, wonderful...
Narrowing Horseshoe. The first part of the plan worked, but at fearful cost. The initial force, a battalion of Vietnamese rangers, was barely 15 miles west of the district town of Tarn Ky when a regiment of V.C.s buried deep in bunkers and armed with .50-cal. ma chine guns and 81-mm mortars let loose at point-blank range. The battalion's two lead companies were virtually wiped out. The Marines dashed to positions south and west of the Viet Cong, while other South Vietnamese troops took up blocking positions. The enemy turned the flank of one Vietnamese...
...desk commander, the Chief of Staff has made three trips to Viet Nam, plans to return there to share Christmas dinner with men of the 8th Cavalry Regiment, the outfit he commanded in Korea. "What we are doing there," he says, "is fighting an island campaign on a land mass." Last week Johnson boarded his JetStar for a one-day visit to the Army's biggest training center, Fort Jackson, in the piney uplands of South Carolina, where 19,655 men are being taught to fight...
Toes & Barbed Wire. Up the coast at Thach Tru some 320 miles northeast of Saigon, a battalion of South Vietnamese Rangers (backed by a company of Popular Forces) made a gutty stand even without loudspeakers. Hit by a full Viet Cong regiment, the Rangers threw back three concerted assaults that left their wire festooned with Red bodies. The V.C. timed their attacks to coincide with lulls in U.S. air support, but they reckoned without the 5-in. guns of the U.S. Navy. Into range at flank speed loped the U.S. destroyer O'Brien, spitting rapid-fire salvos from...
Some 70 miles to the south, the Reds mounted another regiment-size assault -this time on the district capital of Tuy An. A relief force hit the traditional Communist ambush but backed away quickly to let "Puff the Magic Dragon" take charge. One of the squadron of slow-circling C-47 transports converted by the U.S. Air Force, the plane harassed the Reds with its three General Electric-built "Miniguns"-six-barreled super Catlings that can deliver up to 6,000 rounds of 7.62 mm. slugs a minute. Flying in increasingly widening circles, one Puff can slash a swatch...