Word: ambush
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...Uninterested in dogfighting, the North Vietnamese prefer to harass U.S. fighter-bombers on their runs over the North, attempting by feints, forays and cannon fire to make the Americans jettison their bombloads short of target or burn extra fuel in evasive maneuvers. Last week the U.S. set an aerial ambush to end that harassment-and in the process chopped Ho Chi Minh's air arm off at the elbow. Final tally: destruction of nine MIGs, representing nearly half of the North's best aircraft and one-tenth of its total air strength...
...shadowy gunman who was Huk chief tain in six towns in Pampanga and Tarlac provinces and also one of the Huks' most feared "enforcers." The government credited Oscar with at least 25 assassinations and abductions in recent months; Oscar himself openly bragged that he had led the ambush that killed the Huk-fighting mayor of Candaba last July...
...within sight of the Cambodian border, an American unit last week ran headlong into a powerful force of just such men, the freshly infiltrated 101C North Vietnamese Regiment. Once again, la Drang became "the Valley of Death"-though the battle was on a far smaller scale. Lured into an ambush when they pursued a small group of Communist troops that they had sighted, two platoons of the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile), the division that inflicted last year's la Drang defeat on the Communists, were heavily outnumbered and badly mauled by the "gooks"-as the Air Cav has taken...
Outside of town, meantime, troops barricaded the main highway and waited for the Jordanian soldiers they knew would be rushing over from nearby Hebron. Sure enough, 20 truckloads soon roared into view, slowed down for the barricades and ran into a murderous ambush. Not one truck got through. Overhead, four Jordanian Hawker Hunter jets rushing to the rescue suddenly found four faster Israeli Mirages on their tails; one Hawker Hunter was shot down, the others beat a retreat. Four hours after the invasion began, the Israelis finally withdrew, sowing a path of land mines all the way back...
Eight Hours of Lead. Things became a lot more certain the next day. Major Guy S. Meloy was leading 400 of his riflemen through the Tay Ninh jungles when, as he put it, "all hell broke loose." An ambush of 1,500 Communist soldiers opened up with automatic rifles and machine guns on the Americans-and kept on firing and firing. "For eight hours it was nothing but solid lead," said Meloy later. "Where the V.C. got all the ammunition, I've got no earthly idea." Six times the Red soldiers launched human wave charges, yelling and screaming above...