Word: bienhoa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the official government report of July 17, Pham was "ambushed by the security forces and seriously wounded in a forest near Bienhoa. He was taken by helicopter to Saigon, but during the flight he died owing to his serious wounds." The New York Times reported four days later that the Colonel had, in fact, been arrested in a Catholic monastery and shot by the security police in a prison cell fifteen miles north of Saigon...
...these nightmarish conditions will take tough, well-trained troops, and last week the U.S. and its allies were quietly preparing such a force. A token group of Australian infantrymen last week took station at Bienhoa airbase-part of a joint 1,000-man Australian-New Zealand contribu tion to the war effort. Two thousand South Koreans are already in Viet Nam, and Seoul still echoes with rumors of another 15,000-man South Korean combat force being readied for Viet Nam service...
...against the arrival of the monsoon season. Fighter-bombers swarmed daily over North Viet Nam, blasting bridges, shooting up road and rail traffic, igniting petroleum storage tanks and striking within 55 miles of Hanoi. For the Americans, there were moments of tragedy: a pair of U.S. helicopters collided over Bienhoa airbase-the scene last month of an accidental chain explosion that killed 27 men and wrecked ten bombers. This time, nine Americans died...
CAPTAIN RICHARD C. LEE, 35, a stocky, crew-cut blond from Excelsior, Minn., serves as adviser to a South Vietnamese Air Force squadron at Bienhoa Airbase. He likes to fly combat missions, and occasionally he gets a chance. Three weeks ago, at the controls of an A-1H Skyraider, he accompanied Vietnamese planes on a strike against North Viet Nam; last week Lee took part in a raid against a Viet Cong installation...
...same time, the U.S. assembled a force of more than 120 U.S. Super Sabres, Thunderchiefs and B57 Canberra bombers from Bienhoa and Da nang in South Viet Nam, as well as bases in Thailand and possibly the Philippines. Some 30 of the planes peeled off and headed for Quangkhe, while the main force converged on Xombang (appropriately pronounced zom-bang), a jungle staging area and supply dump for infiltrators, ten miles north of the South Viet Nam frontier. More than 120 tons of bombs rained down on Xombang, and U.S. officers later reported "severe damage." All told, one South Vietnamese...