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Greenway's colleagues in TIME'S Saigon and Washington bureaus filed a great deal about other aspects of the cover story, but his eyewitness reports, made under almost constant enemy fire, were the basis for the part on Con Thien. The conditions Greenway was forced to work under were a measure of Greenway the man. He is well known at TIME for his sartorial splendor and neat English accent, polished during two years of graduate study at Oxford and subsequent world travels. Tigers and elephants, which he sometimes sees on operations in Viet Nam, make Greenway think...
Subsequent adventures have taken Greenway from hunts near 19,565-ft.-high Kilimanjaro to 520-ft.-high Con Thien, which, as our cover story notes means roughly "place of angels," but is "more akin to hell." How does he like his new assignment that calls for so much time on the muddy, bloody "roof" of South Viet...
...Thien, South Viet Nam, in the autumn...
Rain of Shells. Con Thien's lifeline is a four-mile-long road connecting the camp with Landing Zone C2, where its supplies are brought in by air. Last week a Marine battalion providing security for the road was attacked by two battalions of North Viet Nam's 324-B Division-part of some 30,000 Red regulars operating in an area defended by 6,000 Marines. Nearly 100 mortar and rocket shells rained down on the leathernecks. Then, recalls Platoon Sergeant John E. Lewis, 22, "the enemy came across the paddies in waves like a herd...
Three days later the Communists attacked Con Thien itself, and a North Vietnamese company followed a heavy artillery and mortar barrage right up to the camp's wire. Repulsed, the Communists withdrew after half an hour, but four Marines were killed and 15 wounded defending the camp perimeter. And all week long, the shells rained down as usual on the Marines. One attack of 80 rounds of 82-mm. mortar fire killed four and wounded 93. Another of rocket and artillery fire killed nine Marines and wounded...