Word: arvn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ARVN armor on Route 9 was to have thrust 25 miles to Tchepone, where main branches of the Ho Chi Minh Trail meet before snaking off into South Viet Nam and Cambodia...
...ARVN force was to have been choppered 48 miles across the trail area to Attopeu, an important Communist-occupied Laotian town on the edge of the Bolovens Plateau; but helicopters supplying the Route 9 operation have been too busy to be diverted to the Attopeu mission...
...number of factors have upset the original expectations. Boxed into static positions, ARVN artillerymen with 155-mm. eleven-mile-range howitzers are often outreached by North Vietnamese gunners with 130-mm. pieces that can fire a shell 17 miles. Fog blankets fire bases and curtails vital air support...
Rather than fade away, as they did in Cambodia, the North Vietnamese troops have moved into defensive positions and reinforced themselves with unexpected speed. Some 35,000 Communist troops are arrayed around Tchepone in a great semicircle facing the ARVN advance. Pentagon experts say that another 20,000 North Vietnamese troops are converging on Route 9 from north and south. They will soon be joined by 6,000 fresh troops from the three North Vietnamese divisions above the Demilitarized Zone...
South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu's suggestion that it was "only a matter of time" before ARVN troops would drive north of the DMZ was designed to frighten Hanoi into keeping its reserve troops in place. But Hanoi's warning that such a thrust would bring China into the war seems to have ended threats of an invasion of North Viet Nam-a contingency that the U.S. would endorse only if the Lam Son forces were near annihilation...