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...afternoon the 26-man platoon was airlifted to a tiny landing zone in the northern Ia Drang Valley near the Cambodian border, where a North Vietnamese regiment had been spotted. No sooner had four of the six choppers unloaded than an enemy ambush opened up from the surrounding jungle. Most of the men were cut down in their tracks. Three overran one enemy machine-gun nest, only to be chopped up by another. "Sergeant Shockey," the platoon's first sergeant called out, "the commander's dead, and I'm dying. Take over the platoon." Moments later, Sergeant...
...nation on the battlefields. For six days the reconnaissance helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division (airmobile) hummed over mountaintops, darted down the alleys of valleys, recklessly trying to draw fire-which would pinpoint an enemy in the elephant grass below. It was familiar terrain: the Chu Pong massif and Ia Drang valley in the western highlands near Cambodia, the "Valley of Death," where the division last fall had fought the bloodiest battle of the war. Chu Pong was a perfect place to hit the enemy off-balance as he prepared his campaigns for the coming monsoon, and Air Cav Commander...
Kerstetter, of Dunster House and Indianola, Ia., succeeds Lawrence S. Coburn; Allen, of Adams House and Omaha, Neb., inherits his position from William C. Crain...
Government Ia will have lectures this week on Tuesday, and Thursday, and in following weeks on Tuesday only. The "hour" for the lecture will be 12:15 to 1:15 and students should not report before 12:15. Lectures will be held in Paine Hall in the Music Building...
PLEASANTVILLE, IA...