Word: northernmost
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Moreover, in zones of traditionally heavy infiltration, they presented convincing evidence that they were indeed attempting to move in large ground forces?though they still did not commit all of some 22 regiments pulled out of northernmost I Corps last fall (see map, p. 27). To counter that most alarming of threats, the allies last week mounted two large-scale counteroffensives, virtually the first of such major sweeps of the Abrams era. West of Saigon, some 10,000 troops from three U.S. divisions, using tanks and armored vehicles, swept through sections of the huge, French-owned Michelin rubber plantation...
Infantry on Guard. Danang, the country's second largest city and the coastal hub of northernmost I Corps, suffered greater damage. Rockets and mortar rounds poured into the city as well as into surrounding military installations. Chain explosions rocked an ammunition dump, setting huge fires raging and pumping black smoke high into the sky. A Marine hangar at the airfield was damaged. Incoming rounds hit a bare 200 yards from the headquarters of the Third Marine Amphibious Force, damaging the naval support headquarters just across the Danang River...
...commanders see the main Communist threat now aimed at III Corps, the region comprising the ten important provinces around Saigon. Earlier this month, the highly mobile First Air Cavalry Division with its complement of more than 400 helicopters was shifted from northernmost I Corps into the Cambodian border fringe north and northwest of the capital, to strengthen allied defensive screens there. The U.S. command estimates that the jungles along the sievelike frontier harbor as many as four Communist divisions, some sheltered in newly built base areas. Throughout III Corps, the Communist order of battle has risen from 60 main...
...terrorist grenadings resulted in a one-day, 24-hour curfew. Yet the remainder of I Corps, not long ago the main theater of fighting, appears unaffected. Allied intelligence estimates that the Communists have only one regiment in or around the Demilitarized Zone and barely two in the two northernmost provinces of Quang Tri and Thua Thien, where 15 of their regiments roamed last February. Altogether, the Communists are believed to have, pulled a quarter to a third of their 120,000 main-force troops out of South Viet Nam into North Viet Nam and the Cambodian and Laotian sanctuaries...
...nounced that, far from pulling back, the Communists were massing for a drive on Saigon. Seventy combat battalions, including eight artillery battalions, were reported within 50 miles of the capital. To the north, 25 to 30 Communist battalions were on the prowl in the DMZ and the two northernmost provinces of South Viet...