Word: chu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troopers of the 1st Air Cavalry got lots of blistered feet, fought some brief skirmishes and took some prisoners, but made no real contact with the enemy. The chance of real battle seemed lost until last week, when the U.S. abruptly found its foe in the shadow of Chu Pong Mountain (see map). The result was the first major encounter between U.S. and North Vietnamese regular troops-and the biggest, bloodiest and most brutal losses for both sides...
...toll of Red dead may have reached 600. Three days later, in jungles controlled by the Communists for 20 years, a battalion of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division repelled scores of attacking Viet Cong, killed at least 150 before the assault was broken. At the coastal town of Chu Lai, U.S. Marines, backed by the Seventh Fleet, made an amphibious landing aimed at flushing out some 3,500 Viet Cong believed to be dug in near...
...Cuba. She was threatened with hanging in a Communist prison in Hungary. She parachuted into Viet Cong territory and got back with the story and pictures she had gone after. But last week War Correspondent Dickey Chapelle's luck ran out. While covering a Marine operation near Chu Lai for the National Observer and radio station WOR, she stepped on a land mine and became the fourth war correspondent to be killed in Viet...
...they intended. When their mousetrap at Plei Me failed to snap shut, they turned to another battle-tested stratagem: suicidal airbase raids. They brought off a minor tactical gain-18 U.S. helicopters and two Navy Skyhawks destroyed, 22 other choppers and five Skyhawks damaged at Danang and Chu Lai-that only six months ago would have blown up scare headlines in the U.S. This time, though, it was the Viet Cong who took the greater loss-in dead and wounded...
...striking forces-to break them up, keep them off balance, erode their influence. For the present, the U.S. is less interested in expanding its geography than in wearing down the enemy. The priority targets, as the U.S. sees them now: first, the U.S. Marines' Hué-Danang-Chu Lai area, then as much of Binh Dinh province as can be cleared, finally the Hop Tac region around Saigon...