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...Treasure Hunt. Delaware's strategy, planned and executed by Lieut. General William B. Rosson, called for a multipronged drive. The 101st Airborne moved down from the east on the Communists' own new road, accompanied by a regiment of South Vietnamese paratroopers. Another South Vietnamese force also closed in from the east. The job of taking the valley itself fell to the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile), two of whose heliborne brigades began leapfrogging in from the north. The first day was a near disaster, as Communist gunners destroyed or damaged 20 of the Air Cav's helicopters, including...
...book's vitality is its language-supple and colloquial, yet framed in the syntax of surprise. The syncopated speech patterns constantly shift away from familiar formulations. In An Interest in Life, a deserted mother observes: a woman "gets fatter, she gets older, she could lie down, nuzzling a regiment of men and little kids, or she could just die of the pleasure. But men are different, they have to own money, men must do well in the world. I know that men are not fooled by being happy...
...prisoners said that they had been subsisting for weeks on less than half a pound of rice a day; for the last three days before their capture, they had had no food whatsoever. Relieved to be free of the threat of instant death, the prisoners told of one regiment that had lost 75% of its 2,000 men to U.S. bombs and artillery...
...enemy proved elusive in the first days of the sweep, but then a U.S. armored cavalry regiment flushed a Viet Cong battalion 15 miles northwest of Saigon. In a nine-hour battle, 81 of the enemy were killed without a single U.S. loss. By week's end, some 500 Communists had been killed in about 60 scattered clashes. Even so, U.S. intelligence suspected that most Communist units had either withdrawn toward Cambodia or broken up their units into small bands to escape detection and avoid contact...
...Marines have their 2nd Division (20,000 men), at Camp Lejeune, N.C., in combat readiness-an Atlantic reserve that must maintain seagoing battalion-landing teams with the Navy's Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, and for the Caribbean. Combat ready on the West Coast, the 28th Marine Regiment (about 5,000 men) is rattling around in California's Camp Pendleton, a bare skeleton force whose departure would empty the West of Marines...