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Like Shooting Ducks. The battle began as a routine "search and clear" operation in a Red-infested area near the tiny hamlet of Apbac. The strike plan called for ten U.S. H21 troop-carrying helicopters, escorted by five U.S. rocket-firing HUA choppers, to ferry 400 government troops to the drop zone in waves of 100 men each. The first three groups landed with no ground fire from the enemy. But as the fourth lift fluttered over the paddies, the Communists let loose with a blaze of bullets from the woods at the edge of the rice field. "The tree...
Transported by more than 50 U.S. helicopters, the most ever used on a combat mission in Viet Nam, some 2,000 government troops launched a full-scale attack on Zone D, a 4,500-sq.-mi. Red strong hold north of Saigon that functions as a combination Pentagon and troop assignment center for Communist forces all over South Viet Nam. The government's mission: to clean out the 5,000 Viet Cong troops in the Zone, disrupt the Red communications and intelligence network, and cut Communist supply lines to the rest of the country. But the Viet Cong...
...three nosed up to the beach with their bow doors open like yawning hippopotamuses. The 14,000 Air Force reservists that had been ordered to active duty were told that they might have to serve as long as one year. The Tactical Air Command had fighter-bombers and troop transports ready to go. The Strategic Air Command was on combat alert, with a fleet of B-52 bombers carrying nuclear bombs in the air at all times...
Squadrons of supersonic F-100s and F-106s zoomed into Florida's Patrick and MacDill Air Force Bases. In the Caribbean were 10,000 Marines who had been about to go on maneuvers. McNamara ordered to active duty 24 troop carrier squadrons of the Air Force Reserve-more than...
...more American and less Japanese-most congregations are turning from Japanese to English in their services, call themselves churches rather than temples to avoid identification with the occult. Services are held on Sunday, although all days are holy to Buddhists. The Buddhist Church of Seattle sponsors a Boy Scout troop, a day nursery, a Sunday school and a drum and bugle corps...