Word: ambushers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even if aircraft had been available, however, Washington officials question whether it would have been wise to send them to Pueblo's aid. The hijack was evidently well planned, and it was quite possible that an ambush awaited any rescue force; at Wonsan perched 50 to 100 MIGS, and South Korean intelligence spotted two additional Communist squadrons flying near the DMZ about the time of Pueblo's capture. Further, in towing Pueblo into Wonsan, the Koreans sailed in close formation, which would have made it difficult for a strafing plane to avoid killing Americans. Once in Wonsan...
...aside here is that Napalm is an effective weapon that is used many times, to solve a particular situation. It is used often when Vietcong have U.S. troops pinned down (usually in ambush). We have no way of knocking out these bunkers without sustaining or risking sustaining heavy losses. Artillery cannot penetrate the earthen cover to the necessary depth and neither many times can bombs. Napalm can put "Charlie" out of action not by burning but by suffocation as the Napalm burning on the surface uses up available Oxygen in the tunnels...
...week TIME's Glenn Troelstrup became the first newsman in Viet Nam permitted to accompany a Seal team on a mission. Dropped by Navy river patrol boats deep into Viet Cong country southeast of Saigon in the swampy mangrove sector of Rung Sat, the Seals set up an ambush beside a small stream. There, for 14 long hours, they froze in position, hip-deep in mud, clad in camouflage suits and bush hats, their faces blackened. Their only communication was by tugs on a string running among them...
...support of Major Said Abid, commander of the First Military Region, who controlled the approaches to Algiers. There was one flaw in the plot: Boumediene's secret police knew its every detail. Forewarned, the President quickly crushed the coup, dispatching his own troops and planes to ambush the insurgent column near the old French colonial town of Blida...
...clubs have special rituals, such as the "night ambush." Around 11 p.m., the members descend on their source at his home or office, extract from him the latest news and rush it off for the final editions. Anyone who breaks club rules is disciplined. When a reporter once got an exclusive interview with Sato without his club's permission, he was banned from briefings with the Prime Minister for a week...