Word: arvn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saigon would suffer a severe psychological blow; ARVN morale might drop if its officers and troops began to worry about continued U.S. assistance to South Viet Nam. It is also possible that arms and ammunition now going to the Khmer insurgents would be redirected to the Communist forces fighting Saigon. Militarily, not much else would be changed, since the North Vietnamese have been using sanctuaries in Cambodia with impunity for several years...
...last week. He was referring to the latest outbreak of fighting in South Viet Nam, which the U.S. Defense Department, at least at first, did not seem to regard as particularly serious. The South Vietnamese military, understandably, took a grimmer view. For the first time in a year, the ARVN high command revived (at 3:30 p.m.) the once-famed "5 o'clock follies"-the daily military briefing for the 60-odd foreign newsmen presently in Saigon...
...ARVN briefers had plenty to tell...
Within a few hours, Communist tanks had penetrated the outskirts of Ban Me Thuot, forcing some 4,000 ARVN troops to abandon the downtown area. The South Vietnamese provincial commander, Colonel Nguyen Trong Luat, called on the air force for help. Bombing inaccurately at high altitudes to avoid North Vietnamese ground-to-air missiles, the South Vietnamese F-5s and A-37s managed to blow up Luat's command headquarters. Meanwhile, the 23rd Division's forward command post had been destroyed by sapper charges. For a time, the only ARVN communication with the outside world was provided...
...years ago. South Vietnamese pilots flew sortie after sortie, and claimed to have knocked out 46 tanks and dozens of artillery pieces on the city's main streets-accidentally killing Province Commander Luat in the process. Troop-carrying helicopters flew through withering antiaircraft fire and successfully landed ARVN reinforcements east of the city. Each side was estimated to have between 6,000 and 7,000 troops within the embattled city...