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...reporter and photographer for the 1st Infantry Division newspaper, and Specialist Fifth Class Franklin Passantino, 21, a muscular combat medic who has won both a Bronze and Silver Star and been recommended for another Bronze Star. Pawlaczyk and Passantino were with the 1st Battalion's 18th Regiment on Oct. 7, when it engaged in a fierce battle with the 271st Viet Cong Regiment nine miles northwest of the division's forward base at Lai Khe. During the burial of the 25 enemy dead, CBS Newsman Webster and Cameraman John Smith arrived on the scene from Saigon. Then-perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Guilty Minority | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...field. How fanciful those reports can be was illustrated by the captured enemy summary on the battle of Loc Ninh. Instead of admitting disaster, the Communist commander reported that his forces destroyed "a U.S. armored battalion, a U.S. rifle battalion, a U.S. artillery battalion and one puppet (South Vietnamese) regiment." In fact, only 29 Americans and 21 Vietnamese were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Frontier Offensive | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...South Vietnamese troops routed two battalions of North Vietnamese regulars, killing more than 250. U.S. Marines south of Danang killed 99 North Vietnamese in a day's battle. Not far away, an Air Cav reconnaissance helicopter team got in a shooting match on the ground and killed the regimental commander of the 3rd Regiment, 2nd Division of the North Vietnamese army. On him and his party were five pounds of important documents, including maps showing all of the U.S. positions near by and the N.V.A.'s regimental battle plans for the near future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Erupting Delta | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...bloody battle twelve miles east of the capital, 3,200 soldiers of both sides were killed. The ferocity of the attack threw the 10,000-man Republican army into such confusion that an entire regiment reportedly deserted to the Royalists. With his artillery zeroing in on the outskirts of San'a, the prince sent an ultimatum: "Surrender the city or be annihilated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yemen: The Siege of San'a | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...target of the week's first attack was no surprise. It was Bo Due, a remote district-headquarters compound within easy commuting distance of the Communists' Cambodian sanctuary. What surprised U.S. officers was the identity of the attacking force. It was the main-force Viet Cong 272nd Regiment, which took such a severe mauling at Loc Ninh last month that Major General John H. Hay, commander of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, predicted that it would be three to six months before the 9th V.C. Division, of which the 272nd is a part, would be able to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Suicidal Intensity | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

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