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...servicemen in Viet Nam are concerned, that is scarcely the case. Since the Buddhist demonstrations first erupted in March, U.S. forces have suffered more dead (994) than they did in the previous comparable period (962). But the war appears to be going far better than the daily headlines, full of demonstrations and burnings, would suggest. In the air, U.S. Air Force F-105 Thunderchiefs last week streaked over a big ordnance complex at Yen Bay, 80 miles northwest of Hanoi, and leveled it in the biggest, most destructive single strike of the war. On the ground, 1st Cavalry troopers reported...
...fighting against the Communists, new figures for the week ending May 21 showed the highest casualties for U.S. servicemen of any week in the war: 146 American dead, 820 wounded. Communist dead for the same period totaled 1,235. The two sets of statistics indicated the far-ranging, grinding intensity of the U.S.'s continuing campaign against an enemy doing his best to avoid battle. Last week U.S. units were out hunting in force along the length and breadth of South Viet Nam-most notably the marines, who launched a major multi-battalion assault near Quang Ngai...
...Thirteenth Air Force's 632nd Combat Support Group scream off and within minutes are over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. From Korat, the jet afterburners of F-105s and F-4Cs of the 6234th Tactical Fighter Wing light up the night sky. Some 20,000 U.S. servicemen are already stationed in Thailand, and 10,000 more, including three additional squadrons of fighter-bombers, are due by year...
...move, fellows," implored the President. "Please don't." Many wounded servicemen struggled nonetheless to sit upright as Johnson walked through the door of Walter Reed Hospital's Ward 34. "I just want to tell you how much your country thinks of you," he called out. "How proud your country is of you. How grateful your country...
...answered tear gas with stones, staves and homemade spears, occasionally even a hand grenade. In South Viet Nam's capital of discontent, Hué, and in Danang, Dalat, Pleiku, Nha Trang and Ban Me Thuot, the rioters roamed virtually at will, their ranks often swelled by uniformed Vietnamese servicemen. A month in the gathering, South Viet Nam's storm of political unrest had erupted in a hail of intermittent violence and near civil...