Word: choppers
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...Frank waved a last goodbye, stepped back into the chopper and disappeared. He could afford to. He had made it. He had captured 14,000 skeptical jazz fans and made them Sinatra fans. "It makes you believe in God," said a guy in the audience...
...MEDEVAC pilots. During one recent battle, Bloomquist found himself swooping in behind four fighter-bombers to pick up seven wounded Americans. Suddenly one of the escorting Skyraiders burst into flames from a ground hit, and its partners peeled away to protect it. All alone, Bloomquist's chopper-call sign "Dust-off 174"-touched down amid wither ing crossfire from Viet Cong .50-cal. machine guns. Bloomquist ordered his crew to load the wounded, calmly polished his sunglasses, then rotated out in a hail of tracers...
...planes arrived with the dawn, rolling great red gouts of napalm through the Communist positions and lacing the underbrush with white phosphorus and cannon fire, the Viet Cong hung on. A relief force fluttered in by helicopter, but was quickly pinned down and wiped out by the attackers. Other chopper-borne rescuers were driven off by ground fire. Dongxoai seemed ready to fall...
...Fool Killer is a "big tall feller" who carries a chopper for chopping fools. His work is cut out for him in this somewhat foolish mystery thriller based on a novel by Helen Eustis...
...Americans died in the effort (four in a flaming chopper, one on the ground, and another-the first U.S. Navy casualty-in the river craft), as well as 23 South Vietnamese. But probably 400 Viet Cong died in the biggest victory in the delta since the U.S. became engaged in Viet...