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VETERAN CORRESPONDENT and combat cameraman Neil Davis used to warn his colleagues in Vietnam against going into action with the US forces:
The enemy always know they're coming, they can even smell their aftershave. They have too much equipment and sometimes the troops go on patrol with transistor radios blaring. It's just too bloody dangerous.
In many cases Davis was right. Hysterical, drug-sodden, poorly led, these soldiers seemed a feeble shadow of the splendid American armies of Normandy, the Pacific and Korea.
It was, of course, hardly their fault. America was trying to fight the war in Vietnam on the cheap using their firepower and ...