Word: danang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arms. Last week the vast engine of military power that the U.S. has installed in South Viet Nam was finally warming to its task. A new air of confidence pervaded the week's decisions, a new professionalism was apparent as American forces deployed from the Delta to Danang on air strikes and ambushes, perimeter sweeps and bold airborne swoops. No longer were the Americans at Bien Hoa merely probing their own backyard. Last week, in little more than 24 hours, a full brigade was airlifted 250 miles to the Central Highlands to play a critical role in the relief...
...landed behind the Reds and quickly blocked their avenue of withdrawal. Pinned down, the V.C. had no choice but to fight. The hammer fell with devastating effect: 158 Reds were killed by the ground troops, an estimated 100 more by close-support air strikes. Far to the north, near Danang, U.S. Marines pioneered a new approach to airborne mobility with a large-scale helicopter-borne assault in darkness. It was organized by Lieut. Colonel David Clement, whose battalion operates in the Elephant Valley, just eight miles northwest of the critical airbase, after his leathernecks captured a Viet Cong operation order...
Moonlight helicoptering is not the only invention of U.S. Marine Corps Lieut. Colonel David Clement (see above). During his four-month stay in the mountainous jungles northwest of Danang, the lean, leathery, 40-year-old North Carolinian has applied the best of counterinsurgency techniques to the dirtiest of conditions...
...visited the village of Le My, eight miles from the big U.S.-operated airbase at Danang, was told that Le My had been taken from the Viet Cong and turned into a model village. Some 400 Vietnamese who had been living under Viet Cong control have voluntarily moved...
...amenities above are not enough to make the passengers forget the war below. Viet Cong snipers occasionally pepper the planes-but have failed to bring any of them down. On a recent flight between Saigon and Danang, passengers in the high-flying Caravelle stared down in fascination at U.S. Phantom jets making low-level passes at the jungle-covered Viet Cong...