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Among the riflemen were lots of would-be Wyatt Earps, backed up by 300 impatient gunners of a U.S. artillery battalion. But so far, there was not a sign that the Viet Cong would test their perimeter, and through the long, hot days the troops were getting bored. As a precaution they were digging their foxholes a little bit deeper. As one paratrooper put it: "The longer we stay here, the more of a target we become...
Mortar and howitzer shells crunched into military compounds, while Viet Cong riflemen, clad only in khaki shorts, swept into the heart of the village. Setting up machine guns and 57-mm. recoilless rifles on an open helicopter pad, they slashed at the barracks, mess halls and headquarters of the Songbe garrison. Said one American survivor: "It looked like the Fourth of July." Five Communists slipped through the perimeter beyond the U.S. compound, but four were gunned down. One managed to reach the mess hall and flip in a hand grenade. Special Forces Sergeant Horace Young, 34, who was already wounded...
...that riflemen's foxholes were dug and mortar positions neatly sand bagged, the 800 U.S. Marines on Hill 327 overlooking Danang airbase were chafing under guard duty and itching for action. Thus it was with considerable relief that the Marines got word that one company could move out to probe the nearby ridges and ravines. Cautiously the company fanned out in separate platoons to begin a 2½ day search for nesting Viet Cong. The first flush was not long in coming: that night one platoon startled some seven V.C.s, who took off running as the Marines fired after...
While Freikorps riflemen rumbled through the streets, the artist crumpled figures up like wastepaper, tumbled them in zigzag planes, froze them in wooden postures that recalled German Gothic altarpieces. No picture better sums up his horror than The Night. Some of his source material came from his drawings in operating rooms in Flanders, but his ghastly torture scene was even more prophetic than he knew. It was to be repeated all over again 14 years later when the Nazis came to power...
...SLUG CARTRIDGE. For run-of-the-draft riflemen, whose aim is usually wide of the target, the Army is experimenting with cartridges containing two bullets, one packed behind the other. The front bullet flies true, but the rear bullet is deliberately made rough-ended so that it lags and drifts a little, approaching the target a foot or more to one side. The resulting shotgun effect is calculated to improve the score of a non-deadeye marksman...