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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most mobile division. Ranging at lethal will all over Central Viet Nam from their 12,000-sq.-ft. home helipad, cut out of the scrub at An Khe, the 478 helicopters and transports of the Flying Horsemen are seldom more than two hours away from an enemy highland unit that tries to mass for an attack. Flying more than 300,000 sorties in seven major campaigns and countless smaller ones, the Air Cav has killed 3,626 Communists since it arrived in force in Viet Nam last August-more than any other American unit. It has held its own losses...
...their efforts. In Operation Texas, six battalions of allied forces dashed to the aid of a beleaguered outpost at An Hao, then found themselves tangling with four battalions of hardcore Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops. In five days they wiped out 485 of the attackers and crippled the unit as a fighting force...
...0055th Army Unit, there happened from September to December 1960 three incidents that led quickly to suicides. The first involved a soldier of the Artillery Company, Kung Ho-yu, an excellent League member and a "five-excellence" soldier. On Aug. 25 he stole three yuan ($1.80), and on the 30th of the same month confessed his wrong. Someone, while charging him with previous thefts, cried: "If you freely confess, we shall be lenient with you, but if you deny these charges we shall be very severe." Kung showed that his feelings were deeply and bitterly stirred, and that night, when...
After the first Soviet troops fought their way into the city, however, the terrified populace began to relax somewhat. The soldiers sometimes seized watches and jewelry, and they dealt ruthlessly with any kind of resistance, but in general they ignored civilians. One fighting unit, bivouacking in Schwarze Grund Park, shared food and candy with neighborhood children. Other soldiers took it as a great joke when they saw how their presence petrified some Berliners. Still, more than a little prophetic was the comment of a polite young Soviet lieutenant who told a Roman Catholic mother superior: "These are good, disciplined...
...Harvard established the Samuel A. Levine Professorship with a gift from the late Charles E. Merrill of New York. Last year Peter Bent Brigham Hospital opened a cardiac center named after Dr. Levine. The center is an intensive care unit for heart disease patients...