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8.A VIET NAM Sr. Ptftrsburtj Timet, Sunday, February 20, 1966 'Copters Lift Marines To Viet" Nam Valley Battle The U.S. Marines' Phuoc Val ley campaign was set off by in HOW DANNY CHOSE DEATH telligence reports of the sighting there of three battalions of the SAIGON J1 Helicopters poured thousands of U.S. Marines into battle array yesterday against Viet Cong in the Phuoc Valley, 350 miles northeast of Saigon. Striking through lieht sniper fire, they hunted the Viet Cong's 1st Regiment, which eluded the sweep launched by American and allied forces on A Special Kind Of Grief Copter Crash Near Saigon Kills 1 Nurses namese servicemen and four civilians were wounded.

AMONG MINOR Incidents elsewhere, Saigon police arrested four men they identified as Viet Cong liaison agents. The four were said to have been discussing plans for further terrorism. A Vietnamese government spokesman told of heavy fighting in the central highlands north of Ban Me Thuot, 160 miles northeast of Saigon. He said South Vietnamese units. enemy's hard-core 1st Regiment.

the central coast last month. 1DUR BATTALIONS of Ma- rines, each far bigger than the Communist standard of 400 to 600 men to a battalion, were en VS. NAVY FIGHTER bombers flew in support of the Ma-rines. They streamed in from the carrier Valley Forge in the South China Sea. U.S.

B52 jets carried the war to the Viet Cong on the other gaged. Two of the Marine bat talions had just spent three weeks in the field in operation supported by warplanes, killed Double Eagle, one phase of the side of the country. They at coastal offensive that closed 91 Viet Cong. Government losses were described as light. tacked points only two miles Thursday.

CAROL ANN DRAZBA one of the victims. from the Cambodian frontier with a new fusing device intend ed to let bombs bore deep into enemy tunnels before they ex plode. Communist eunneri shot down three aircraft In other sectors. Two American helicopters Special To Tht Tlmtt (c) Tht Nw York Times i- CUCHI, South Vict Nam Danny Fernan-dez was one of those rare young men who is looked up to by his contemporaries quiet, competent, unselfish, cheerful, the type they choose as president of the senior class. When he died Friday, he was a rifleman In the U.S.

5th Infantry Division, and everyone who had known him mourned him. There was special depth to their grief, because Danny Fernandez chose death by throwing his body 'onto an exploding Viet Cong grenade to save the lives of four of his comrades. OX THE REPORT at brigade headquarters, the story was told in few words: "Daniel specialist four. Born June 30, 1941 Next of kin, Jose Fernandez, Las Lunas, N.M., father. Killed In action, Feb.

18, 1966." His father Is a rancher, and Danny had hoped to go back to do the same thing. He had hoped to marry a girl named Becky some day. had hoped to have a herd of horses, because he liked riding better than anything. Fernandez had been In Viet Nam once as a volunteer machine gunner on a helicopter. So it was not surprising that was one of 16 men who volunteered for a ambush patrol that was sent out from Cu Chi.

About 7 a.m., as the patrol lay in wait In a Jungle clearing for the Viet Cong, Spec. 4 Joseph T. Benton of Hertford, N.C., spotted Viet Cong In the woods beyond a burned out hut. He began firing his machine gun, and then reached for a hand grenade. Before he could pull the pin, a Communist sniper killed him.

Fernandez crawled to one side of the hut to cover the right flank, and Spec. 4 James P. McKeown of Willingsboro, N.J., moved Into place on the other side. Behind the hut was Pvt. Davis R.

Masingale of Fresno, the platoon's 18-year-old medic. A moment later, the Vict Cong opened up with machine guns, and a bullet smashed into the leg of Sgt. Ray E. Sue, knocking him to the ground. Spec.

4 George E. Snodgrass of Pompton Lakes, N.J., who had come up with Sue to try to pull Benton out, hit the dirt. Now all five men were pinned down In an area no bigger than a living room Masingale treating Sue, the two flankmen riddling the bushes, and Snodgrass firing from behind Benton's body. AT THAT INSTANT, a grenade fired from a rifle by one of the guerrillas landed beside Fernandez' leg. He got up on all fours, trying to escape, but he hit the grenade with his ankle, knocking It to within three feet of the group around Benton and Sue.

Without hesitation Fernandez shouted, "Move out," and threw himself onto the grenade. When the others reached him, he was still conscious. The last man Fernandez talked to was Sgt Ruben Perkins of Nashville, Tenn. "I'm sorry," he said to Perkins. "Someone else is going to have to take care of you, because old Dan has got to go now." He died in the helicopter.

Laos Reports Red Capture Of Key Town Times Wire Services VIENTIANE, Laos Com were felled during fresh operations of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division around Bong Son, 300 miles northeast of Saigon. GROUND FIRE downed a South Vietnamese Army L19 spotter plane 12 miles south of SAIGON (UPI) Two Army nurses the first U.S. ser-vicewomen to become victims of the Vietnames war and five other persons were killed in the crash of an Army helicopter near Saigon, it was disclosed yesterday. Included among the victims was Capt.

Albert M. Smith, son of UPI Pulitzer prize winning White House correspondent Merriman Smith. The crash occurred shortly after the helicopter left Saigon Tan Son Nhut airport for a flight to Qui Nhon, 270 miles northeast of here on the central coast. The helicopter hit an electric power line about 10 minutes after take-off. Military authorities said the craft might have been hit by guerrilla ground fire.

The nurses Lt. Carol Ann Drazba, 22, of Dunmore, and Lt. Elizabeth Ann Jones, 22, of Allendale, S.C. had hitched a ride on the flight They planned a two-day trip their first visit outside Saigon since arriving here Nov. 1.

"Both of these girls were such fine nurses," said Maj. Edith Nuttall, chief of nurses at the 3rd Field Hospital near here. "They were just about everything one would hope professional nurses to be." Da Nang, the U.S. Marine head munist North Vientamese and Pathct Lao forces have driven government troops from a strongpoint town in northern Laos in bloody fighting, official quarters and air base, and its two Vietnamese crewmen were killed. The aerial campaign against government military sources said yesterday.

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since resumption of the bombing Jan. 31 after a 37-day lull. A spokesman announced a U.S. Navy A6 Intruder from the Carrier Kitty Hawk failed to pull out of a dive on a bombing run Friday and the two men aboard it were presumed killed. There was another spurt of terrorist activity in the Saigon area.

A homemade bomb exploded in a restaurant in Hoc Mon, about 10 miles north of Saigon and police said 10 Viet Canada Foreign Aide Cites Peace Move IN TOKYO, a monitored Red Chinese broadcast said four U.S. jet planes fired more than 500 bullets at the Chinese Com munist consulate general in Phong Saly, Laos. garded as an organism that might play a useful role In trying to bring about a negotiat Times Wire Services WASHINGTON Canadian Foreign Minister Paul Martin reported yesterday a "favorable ed settlement in Viet Nam." Meanwhile, Sen. Vance Hartke, a critic of Unit reaction" by top U.S. officials to Canada's proposal for an International Control Commission ed States policy in Viet Nam, assailed what he described as a "Pentagon power play" to pres sure Congress through veterans' Ky Cabinet Shift Readied I Times Wire Services SAIGON Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, south Viet Nam's premier, is expected to announce a reorganization and enlargement of his Cabinet this Week which will be aimed primarily at combating this country's alarming inflation.

Economists estimate that 6ince the beginning of last year the cost of living in Viet Nam has risen by about 50 per cent. Civil servants and military personnel with fixed incomes have been finding it Increasingly difficult to support their families and are growing restive. Inflation is thus becoming the most urgent political as well as economic problem facing Ky's government. It is believed that the current minister of economy will be shifted to another Cabinet post and replaced by a new minister who will attempt a reorganization of this organizations. According to reports Arthur Sylvester, assistant secretary of Hanoi Doesn't Intend To Become Flexible Spcll TO Tht TlmM (c) Tht New York Timet SAIGOX The North Vietnamese leadership has indicated in response to a fresh Western contact that it has no intention of adopting a more flexible attitude toward peace negotiations with the United States, an informed source said yesterday.

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