Word: danang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each of the four logistical islands at Saigon, Cam Ranh, Qui Nhon and Danang orders, schedules, receives, stores and disburses more than 100,000 different kinds of items, from ammunition, tanks and jet fuel to fresh vegetables, frozen meat, typewriters and air-conditioning units. Significantly, the number is four times what the U.S. Army rates as the minimum needs of its present field force. So well served is the U.S. fighting man in the Viet Nam war that helicopter-supplied units can bring him two hot meals a day out in the field. Many a soldier or Marine is able...
...Even so, Metropolitan Opera Tenor Richard Tucker, 52, insists that he made almost as big a hit as a lot of the Hollywood starlets who have gone to Viet Nam to entertain the troops. Back in Manhattan after a two-week singing tour that took him from Saigon to Danang and included presiding over a couple of Passover Seders, Tucker said the boys thoroughly enjoyed the arias from Pagliacci and Tosca. "They're a very, very intelligent caliber of boys," he said-and very, very early risers too. Aboard the aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard, he wailed, "they told...
...round mortar attack, the Viet Cong destroyed a railroad bridge and a combination railroad-highway bridge on Highway One leading into Quang Tri. On the same day, Communist demolition frogmen floated explosives under the important Nam O bridge, eight miles northwest of Danang on the road to Quang Tri. The charge dropped a 75-ft. span of the bridge into Cu De river. And to complete the day's work, a fourth bridge, 14 miles southwest of Danang, was dynamited...
Founded in 1953 (eight years before the Peace Corps), l.V.S. currently counts 135 staffers in Viet Nam, stationed from Danang to the Delta, as well as 96 members in Laos. Of that number, 24 are girls and 25 are conscientious objectors for whom l.V.S. service takes the place of duty in the armed forces. Others are young men who-rejected by the armed forces-joined l.V.S. in order to serve in Viet Nam in some worthwhile capacity. With an average age of 241 and college backgrounds ranging from etymology to economics, the I.V.S.ers are do-gooders with a difference: though...
...heavy fire, a psychological advantage for the V.C. The Viet Cong cannot use aerial spotters to adjust their fire, of course, and are handicapped by American radar operators, who are quick to get a fix on their positions. Less than two minutes after last week's shelling of Danang, American batteries were blasting the Viet