Word: airstrips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apart on the southernmost tip of Viet Nam. To confuse government reinforcements and to hamper their speedy arrival, the Viet Cong first feinted at three neighboring outposts, sowed mines on a major road over which government troops had to travel, and poured harassing mortar fire on a U.S. helicopter airstrip in the area...
...seven-story Leopoldville building that serves as U.N. headquarters in the Congo once buzzed with daily crises; today its corridors are quiet and staffers greet one another with: "What are your plans?" At a U.N. airstrip, Swedish jet pilots kill time by strafing a damaged aircraft on the ground. "Using up ammunition," an officer explains. "We won't take it home...
...Force jet transport eased onto central Thailand's Korat airstrip from Hawaii last week and deposited 69 U.S. combat troops in battle dress. They were the advance unit of the two U.S. Army battle groups scheduled to participate in next month's SEATO maneuvers involving 25,000 troops from Thailand, the U.S., France, Britain, Pakistan and the Philippines. At SEATO headquarters in Bangkok, the purpose of the exercise was explained: "The operation supposes that out of tense conditions near the border of Thailand an enemy force crosses into this country in open aggression...
Today, the U.S. maintains some 4,500 military personnel in Thailand. They help build roads, fly helicopters and operate U.S.-Thai radar stations. One group of Navy Seabees is building a 6000-yard jet airstrip near the frontier with Laos...
Apart from the combat troops, some 2,600 other U.S. military personnel-chiefly engineers and signal troops-are in Thailand. Near the Laotian border, a U.S. Army construction battalion is nearing completion of an all-weather jet airstrip...