Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several border command posts, including the headquarters of the South Vietnamese rangers, were under heavy attack. Khe Sanh, the U.S. operational base for helicopters, was shelled for the seventh straight day on Sunday...
...command also moved two armored units towards the Laotian border, trying to prevent the North Vietnamese from sweeping across the border into South Vietnam. The units were reported to be engaged in heavy fighting. American helicopters were kept busy flying the South Vietnamese out of their surrounded remaining half-dozen bases in Laos. A correspondent for NBC news described the retreating South Vietnamese as "tired and beaten...
...over the weekend, as more than 50 American fighter-bombers struck at supply depots up to 175 miles north of the DMZ. In Pentagonese the strikes were termed "limited duration protective reaction air strikes." Hanoi reported that two U.S. jets were shot down Sunday. The U.S. command said that no planes were lost...
With a kind of advance-to-the-rear logic, the South Vietnamese command announced Sunday that the Laos operation is in "its withdrawal stage" and continued to stick to their claim that the invasion has been a success. At the same time...
...North Vietnamese regiment numbering up to 2000 men defied B-52 raids that laid down nearly 100 tons of bombs and attacked a South Vietnamese marine command post only five miles from the South Vietnamese border...