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SABRE - Road Lists - The First 99 - A44 (2271 words) |
 | The original starting point of the A44 was just east of Chipping Norton with the A34, however since the extension of the M40 in the late 80s, A34 traffic has been redirected onto the M40 and the A44 now starts at the far end Woodstock Road, north of Oxford, where it joins the A40. |
| After the A38 crosses in a staggered junction, the A44 continues via Deansway past the statue of Elgar and the Cathedral before swinging West to cross the river. |
| From the bypass the A44 heads over the railway line before turning left at a former T junction (the RHS being the B4361 to Ludlow), doglegging round the town centre, before meeting a signal-controlled TOTSO to the right (straight ahead being the other half of the B4361). |
| Company A44/36/1Signal Bde (300 words) |
| When news-reporters questioned why the enemy did not target more important installations within range, such as MACV Hq or the Presidential Palace, MACV stated the VC responsible were captured and killed before those installations were hit. |
| Journalists, such as CBS TV reporter Walter Cronkite, who visited the Co A44 on the morning after the strike and interviewed some of its personnel, including Phill Coleman, were later told that Co A44 had been "dis-established". |
| In 1980 a survivor of the attack on Company A44, Phill Coleman, completed a book on the incident. |
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