Word: ammo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ORDNANCE. Shortages of .30-and .50-cal. machine-gun rounds, of ammunition for 20-mm. antitank guns and, most important, of 7.62-mm. ammo for the M-14 rifle. Most of the ammunition now being turned out goes straight to Viet Nam, leaving such units as the U.S. Seventh Army in Europe in short supply...
...same time, U.S. Navy and Air Force jets kept up their pounding of targets to the north. Barracks and PT boats, radar stations and ammo dumps caught the brunt of the aerial assault, and the bomb-line boomed ever closer to Hanoi. U.S. planes struck within 45 miles of the North Vietnamese capital, as if to challenge the half-dozen Soviet Ilyushin-28 jet bombers discovered by high-flying U.S reconnaissance planes late last month and at present sitting idly at Phucyen, just northwest of Hanoi. U.S. officials assume that the planes are Russian-piloted and represent Moscow...
...Niedringhaus, things are looking up in Viet Nam. "It's hard to believe how much this war has changed," he says. "We used to have to scrounge damned near everything we needed, including weapons and ammo. And I'll tell you something else: We didn't kill a helluva lot of V.C. either...
Wives & Desperation. Then shock troops dragged wicker baskets full of grenades and ammo through holes blown in the wire, knocked out a sandbagged bunker on Kannack's northeast corner with one shot from a 57-mm. recoilless rifle, then blasted through the camp's bloody southeast angle to carry a string of defensive bunkers. All told, Kannack's defenders lost 33 dead and 27 wounded-most of them in the first assault...
...clouds kept getting in the way. Finally 19 propeller-driven South Vietnamese Skyraiders and 20 U.S. Air Force Super Sabres took off from Danang and headed for the North Vietnamese torpedo-boat base at Quangkhe, 65 miles north of the 17th parallel. There they relentlessly clobbered berths, repair shops, ammo dumps and supply warehouses with 70 tons of bombs, destroying an estimated 70% of the targets and sinking three to five PT boats in the bargain...