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lies (Vietcong). I think we pretty•I• *I*%Vwell cleaned out the battalion. We had 22 Charlies stacked up in front of us.”ELLIS counted at least three snipers strapped into jungle trees overhead.“They were tied up there and the men would stand up and empty about a 20-round magazine into them,” Ellis said.Yf1st Lt. James T. Scott, 24, of Coleman, Tex., who took command of one of the two U.S. companies when its captain waswounded, singled out one man— Spec 4 Newton Tate Jr., 24, of New York City — for special praise.Scott said Tate singlehanded-ly manned a machine gun in an exposed position and held offadvancing Communists as the rest of his platoon pulled back frdm the cemetery.AFTER DARK, the Americans, supported by air and artillery strikes, forced the Communists into retreat.ylt;blt;U]kNtipbAslt;nosgIn war action at sea, the U.S. Navy destroyers John R. Craig and Hamner exchanged fire Saturday with a North Vietnamese shore battery off the port city of Dong Hoi. Neither ship was hit, but commanders reported scoring direct hits on the Communist positions, destroying two of the battery’s four gun emplacements and damaging the other two.T n 4La tun r TT C Air* T?ArPQ
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Phoenix Arizona Republic
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Mon, Nov 21, 1966
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