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...ships, 400 warplanes and 27,000 men of "77" are not included in the 145,000-man total of forces now in Viet Nam. But they are very much a part of the war, and not merely of the air war. When U.S. Marines systematically took apart a V.C. regiment on the Van Thuong peninsula south of Chu Lai last August, two destroyers and a cruiser of Task Force 77 bombarded V.C. bunkers, blasted to pieces a Red company that tried to escape over the beach. Fact is, Seventh Fleet Commander Admiral Paul P. Blackburn's floating artillery...
...Sleepless Enemy. Sweep forces usually encountered few Viet Cong but often found supplies, such as enough rice in the Triangle to feed a V.C. regiment for four months. They also uncovered dirt-fresh evidences of the Communists' long-famed trenching arts: tunnels up to 40 feet deep and several hundred yards long, with angled corridors and galleries to reduce blast effects, air vents and emergency exits...
...Some 30 miles northwest of Saigon, the 173rd Airborne, together with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, struck back into the "Iron Triangle" combed by allied forces only three weeks ago. The first operation encountered few V.C., but the guerrillas love to slip back into an area recently "cleared," and so this time the allies were double-checking with lethal thoroughness. Twice B-52s from Guam pounded the Triangle's rain forest and rubber trees. When the Airborne moved in, they carried tear gas-to protect the innocent as well as to flush...
...Cong scented victory as well as rain in the air. They had successfully moved from Phase 1 (political agitation) in the Red guerrilla manual of arms to Phase 2 (terrorism and small-unit battles). Hoping the monsoons would give them haven, they readied Phase 3: all-out battalion and regiment-size assaults on the frayed and battle-weary South Vietnamese army...
...known as the "Iron Triangle," which had not been entered by government forces for years First Guam-based B-52s blasted the sides of the target. Then, swooping in over startled water buffaloes and silent paddies, helicopters brought in troops of the 173rd U.S. Airborne and the Royal Australian Regiment. The clearing in the trees was soon a blur of yellow red and green flare smoke, darting transport choppers, and prowling Cobras (armed helicopters). A battery of the Royal New Zealand Artillery moved up by truck. Finally, as a heavy rain began to fall, the Vietnamese paratroopers swooped down among...