Word: counterassault
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken was found sown with Red mines). After 40 minutes, the Communists withdrew, carrying off enough weapons to arm one of their battalions, plus four captured American advisers.* Because it took Saigon's new revolutionary regime more than a day to supply enough troops for a helicopter-borne counterassault, most of the Reds escaped. Some government troops had been tied down in fighting elsewhere, but a U.S. officer said bitterly: "It was Sunday. And this isn't a seven-day war except for the Viet Cong...