Word: danang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground, an honor guard of 1,000 Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force and Coast Guard men had been assembled; one Marine company had been flown down from Danang for the visit in jungle fatigues and camouflaged steel helmets. Forty U.S. flags fluttered along with unit flags for such fighting outfits as the 1st Air Cav, the 1st Marine and the 101st Airborne Brigade...
...half the number of casualties caused by each mine by an order that men on patrol must remain at least 15 yards apart. But the price of life is constant vigilance, and it is a price that even the best of soldiers sometimes forget to pay. Near Danang recently, a veteran Marine sergeant, who should have known better, tried to pull up an anti-American sign stuck in a paddy dike. Both he and the sign were blown to pieces...
...U.P.I.'s photography desk, she to report for the bureau. Since then, the fast-moving Philadelphian has scored an impressive number of beats. She was the first reporter to witness and photograph a B-52 raid, and she was first to interview the mayor of Danang after Premier Ky called him a Communist and erroneously announced that he had fled the city. In her tailored sage-green flight suit, the pert, 5-ft. 2-in. redheaded veteran of the Air Force's Okinawa survival course is well known throughout the country. "I've learned to keep quiet...
...tanned and shapely blue-eyed blonde is one of Saigon's most eligible females, but she has little time for socializing. When she is not covering political upheavals in the city, she is usually chasing down front-line action. When Viet Cong bullets began spattering around her near Danang, she took pictures first, cover second. Once the sound of a not-too-near mortar shell prompted four Marines to fling themselves over her "protectively." Says she: "They're always doing cute things like that in the field...
...service by a civilian. Like most of the others, the soft-spoken brunette has studiously resisted being toughened into "one of the guys." Now in Viet Nam because "I felt I had to try explaining to the people at home what is going on," she has based herself in Danang. "I detest Saigon," she explains. "The war seems so remote from there." In fatigues and big-brimmed slouch hat, she spends most of her time talking to the troops. "After five minutes," she says, "they get the idea I'm not a greenhorn...