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Clad in combat fatigues, with a dagger and a revolver buckled to his waist, Major General Olinto M. Barsanti marched up to General William C. Westmoreland at Bien Hoa airbase northeast of Saigon and declared: "The 101st Airborne Division is present for combat in Viet Nam." Arrival of the fresh troops last week marked a new and potentially crucial phase in the war. Westmoreland believes that allied troops have succeeded during 21 years of fighting in pushing the main body of Communist regulars to South Viet Nam's frontiers. Now, in response to the enemy's delaying action...
Tweet, Tweet. Unless the Communists sharply intensify the war, the U.S. strategy in coming months will be to press the fight at the borders and to find and destroy the main-force units inland. The tough First Air Cavalry and the 101st Division will become Westmoreland's mobile reserves, ready to meet major Communist moves anywhere in the country. The optimistic hope is that as inland areas become cleared and the remaining main-force units are pushed to the frontiers, the South Vietnamese will be capable of taking over and holding the territory against local guerrillas. Next year they...
SAME MUD, SAME BLOOD (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). To study the Negro soldier in Viet Nam, Newsman Frank McGee lived for nearly a month in the field with a platoon of the 101st Airborne Division...
...Cosby, 49. Born in Virginia, the son of a Baptist deacon, Cosby was ordained a minister of his father's church after graduating from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. During World War II, as a chaplain to an infantry glider regiment that landed in Normandy with the 101st Airborne Division, Cosby began to think about the possibility of a new kind of ecumenical congregation based upon personal commitment rather than creed. While in Europe, he formed the experimental Airborne Christian Church, which was composed of soldiers from several faiths who organized in small groups, conducted their own prayer...
...tallying weapons; the "long patrol" of Sergeant Robert Grimes Jr., another brave Negro, who took his men deep into Red territory-each armed with 800 rounds of ammo and plenty of Tabasco sauce (a favorite condiment for cold C rations); a "checkerboard" search through thick jungle by the 101st Airborne, which finally pinned down and slaughtered 400 North Vietnamese in log bunkers...