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...North Vietnamese regulars were spotted making their way northward out of the DMZ, leaving behind some abandoned gun emplacements. Plagued by problems of supply and outgunned by the U.S. response, which daily included at least 5,000 artillery shells and 1,000 tons of bombs dropped from B-52s, the North Vietnamese, at least for the moment, drastically reduced their barrage. Perhaps moving to higher ground to escape monsoon flooding of their emplacements, they lobbed only 40 or 50 rounds of shells a day on the Marines...
Aware that North Vietnamese regulars are concentrating troops in the A Shau valley 60 miles west of Danang, the U.S. sent B-52s to bomb the area. Air Cavalry troopers landed by helicopter on top of a nest of tunnels in the central province of Quang Ngai, rooted out the North Vietnamese defenders and blew up the bunkers. In the same province, 4th Division troopers flushed an entire North Vietnamese battalion and killed 65, losing only one man themselves...
...should indeed give any aggressor pause. It consists of the 1,000 Minuteman Is and IIs, 54 Titan IIs and 656 Polaris missiles, as well as 555 B-52 and 80 B58 intercontinental bombers armed to unload nuclear bombs on any enemy in the world-although some 60 B-52s are now based on Guam and in Thailand to fly conventional missions over North Viet...
...from place to place, the North Vietnamese have kept the Marines under continual pressure. Last week they took some heavy pounding themselves. After two months in which they stayed away from the DMZ, largely because of SAM missiles entrenched there, the Air Force's big eight-engined B-52s returned to pound Communist installations in the northern half of the zone...
...high as 100 m.p.h., helicopters equipped with People Sniffers have detected groups of men in jungle-covered "free bombing zones"-areas cleared of civilians where anything that moves is regarded as fair game. On the basis of E63 readings, artillery fire has been called in and flights of B-52s have been dispatched to saturate the suspicious area with bombs...