Word: chau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farther to the north-the government outpost of Phuoc Chau-the Reds bit off more than they could handle. It was 3 a.m. when the Viet Cong opened up with a mortar barrage on the badly outnumbered garrison, which was there mainly to protect peasants in a nearby valley who had been paying forced tribute to the Reds. Supported by machine guns, the Communists stormed the barbed-wire perimeter, but were thrown back by the determined fire of the government forces...
Scene of the struggle was a jungle clearing outside An Chau, a village 360 miles north of Saigon. There, U.S. Sergeants James Gabriel of Honolulu and Wayne E. Marchand of Plattsmouth, Neb., were drilling 31 local Vietnamese volunteers in a two-week field exercise in guard techniques and patrolling. Along to watch the exercises were two new American arrivals in South Viet Nam, Sergeants Francis Quinn of Niagara Falls, N.Y., and George E. Groom of St. Joseph, Mo. All went well until the third night of the exercise...