Word: bienhoa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, other U.S. jets and Skyraider attack bombers flew 47 sorties from Bienhoa Airbase near Saigon, hitting hard with bombs and rockets at units of Viet Cong in the jungles east of the capital. With all the U.S. hardware in the sky, the Viet Cong began lying low for the moment...
...question now being debated in the Administration is simply this: Should the U.S. declare war on North Vietnam? The CRIMSON pointed out in an editorial on Nov. 17, 1964, shortly after the disaster at Bienhoa airforce base, that General Khanh's proposals for attacking the North were gaining favor with American policy makers. The recent American air strikes against North Vietnam revealed that these views now have more than verbal support in the Administration. Some observers feel that McGeorge Bundy is the chief advocate of the attacks on the North, and that he was in Vietnam two weeks...
...month, Johnson did nothing. Twice the Viet Cong struck directly at U.S. personnel, and twice they got away with it. Two days before the U.S. presidential election, guerrillas killed five Americans, wounded 76, and destroyed six B57 bombers with a savage mortar barrage against South Viet Nam's Bienhoa Airfield. Last Christmas Eve, a plastic charge demolished Saigon's Brink Hotel, a big officers' billet, killing two Americans and wounding 98 others. Both times U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor pleaded for a retaliatory strike at the North. Both times he was turned down...
...performed behind a barricade of protective sandbags before armed men with the sound of artillery in the distance, but the only casualty was Jill St. John, who was given a heavy crossbow as a gift. She dropped the ancient weapon on her foot and has been limping since. At Bienhoa Airbase, Hope tried one of his oldest one-liners, explaining to troops why he had come to Viet Nam. "The Defense Department has tried everything else," he said, "so why not me?" Why not, indeed? A headline last week in the New York Herald Tribune said HOPE IN VIET...
...greatest U.S. military loss occurred just two weeks ago when Viet Cong mortar fire killed four U.S. servicemen and destroyed or damaged twenty bombers at Bienhoa air force base, near Saigon. A few days after the shelling of Bienhoa, General Nguyen Khanh, former Premier and presently military chief of staff, reiterated what he considers the solution for South Vietnam's problems: that South Vietnam and the United States should attack North Vietnam...