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FASTZSTH la alkallR won't sour. Helps check plat&odor. Dentures that At are essential to health. See your dentlet regularly. Get FA8TEXTH at aU drug counters, ed tangled mangrove forest they passed might harbor Viet Cong. taut " - rope. ' I 1 W he was swept downstream Soldiers ran into shallow water to grab him but were sucked down to their hips in mud. Smith DeVitts Pills --1 WW When You Order w By Hail From Family Weekly.. . en vi . -- aM ,titi tne U. a. Army nas not xougni since ine Civil Wsr. VVhvfl Hi howitzerf mired helplessly in mud, Capt John A. Beieler solved the problem by borrowing Navy barges and welding the big guns to the deck; when river patrol boats snagged keels on submerged jungle tangle, the Army imported craft which hover over water on a layer of air; when fast river boats were needed, GIs took to air boats, such as those used in the Florida Everglades. When there was no firm land for troops to establish permanent camps, the Navy moved in barracks ships as "metal islands," complete with movies and PXs. When patrols in the Plain of Reeds, a vsst waist-dee- p marsh blanketed by tall knife-shar- p grass, continually lost direction be- -' cause of the "desert sameness" of the terrain, helicopters guided them to compass points. And when ordinary showers could not wash off the sticky Delta slime, fireboat hoses blasted the gook off. Even stranger are the personal experiences of the "swamp rats." Sgt Marvin Zetocha tripped on a hidden nylon cord while patrolling near Tan Tru. "I thought I was dead," he recalls, "because as soon as I hit it, I knew it was a VC booby trap." But nothing happened. Zetocha investigated and found that a. rat, which in the Delta measures more than a foot long, had chewed up the connecting wires. Sp4 Stanley Trinidad was searching muddy underbrush near Rach Kien when he pushed aside a palm leaf and found himself with a VC, aiming an American rifle at him. "I jumped into a pool, holding my breath," Trinidad says, "but I had to act quick. I kept my head under water and stuck my rifle to the surface and fired. When I couldn't hold my breath any longer, I popped up to see what had happened." Trinidad had recorded the first enemy kill from a submerged position,' unusual even in the unusual Mekong Delta.' Jack Ryan , air-cushi- hit-and-r- ; Suddenly, one man's grip loosened, and fire-fig- ht Please allow up to four weeks for delivery. The ads are placed by reputable companies. The Items and copy an checked for reliability by Family Weekly, too. Yet with thousands of orders coming in to our advertisers, sometimes unintentional delays occur. Although they hap--ponly infrequently, when they do, Family Weekly wants to assist you as much as possible. If you've any question about mail order, Just write: Service Department, Family Weekly, 405 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 4V scores of minor ones, vital supply routes both for VC guerrillas and Saigon. For 2nd Lt Melvin E. Smith, platoon leader, it had been a harrowinf first combat mission through an area filled with alligators, snakes, leeches, and malarial mosquitoes. Now his platoon faced a swift river, and Smith ordered one man to swim it carrying a rope which he would tie to a mangrove on the opposite bank. The GI ' succeeded against tidal currents, and the platoon began fording, holding onto the shucked his .boots and gear, dived into the brownish water,and swam to the man; struggling together, they made it safely to the other bank. Before the crossing was completed, Smith twice more dived into the river to save men from being lost in the treacherous current Later, he got his first taste of combat in a with a VC ambush BACKACHE Joint Pains CSSal StCeeseaawa1 i-- group, but with a wry grin Smith still says "I think 111 remember that river crossing most of all." In the strange war inVietnam, nothing is stranger than that in the Mekong Delta, lonx a gironsouiu ui um j, wuuoc extortion "taxing" has driven many farmers out of the Vietnamese rice bowl. The 9th Infantry has been in the Delta about a year, chiefly trying to adapt to But their most immediate enemy waa the Delta itself, hundreds of square miles of swamp veined by two major rivers and Jr 1 NOW . wWlevy IX 1 45J-II- I d recon-noiter- . 80VTWWT here f Amud-cake- ture that At are tssmtisl to health. Sea your dantie regularly. Gat special FixoDsurr at all drug countera. And Promptly Stop Itching, Believe Pain In Most Cases. irritated tissues and helps prevent farther infection. In oint- ; ment or suppository fornv 1 platoon of the U.S. Infantry Division near Radi Kien in the Delta last spring, knowMekong ing each flooded rice paddy and e- Steibozcops Science hag found a medication with the ability, in most cases-- to stop burning itch, relieve pain and actually shrink hemorrhoids. '" " In case after case doctors proved, while gently relieving" pain and itching:, actual reduction (shrinkage) took place. The answer is Preparation is no other .formula like it for hemorrhoids. Preparation H also soothes inflamed, .. -- U. S. MEDICAL CORPS Hemorrhoids . -- face-to-fa-ce Helieopter$ have US. and South Vietnamese troope on patches of earth in ncampy Delta, long IS eC guerrilla baslioiir Family Weekly, November tt, 1997 v |