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When the music stops, the sentries radio for help. First a yellow illumination shell goes up from mortars, followed by diamond-white flares from planes overhead. Then come the "freight trains"-the wheeoosh of friendly artillery shells rushing overhead toward a suspect marsh near by. Who is killed? Who knows? More often than not, the flares have dispersed the Viet Cong long before the first angry cannon is fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: On the Edge of Town | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

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