Word: regiments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Still unsatisfied, Hué's big-men-on-campus called a mass meeting in a downtown cinema, attacked the milder draft law as a government conspiracy to "regiment" the intellectuals. They also sent a delegation to line up the students at the University of Saigon. Saigon would not line up. One reason: the city seems tired of marches, demonstrations and coups. Another is that many students who might otherwise be plotting to issue manifestoes are busy with more wholesome activities...
Call from Bull. Heaviest fighting began in the west, where Echo, Gulf and Hotel Companies of the 4th Marine Regiment's 2nd Battalion landed in helicopters and were immediately pinned down by automatic-weapons fire from a low ridge ahead of them. After two hours, Marine jets swooped in with rockets, and the battalion's tough commander, Lieut. Colonel Joseph ("Bull") Fisher, led a walking skirmish line up the ridge, with every third man firing from the hip. "Come on, you marines," yelled Bull Fisher as enemy bullets zipped past, "those ain't pinball machines firing...