Word: danang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some ways, the fighting in South Viet Nam has almost faded away. American casualty rates are at the lowest level in four years. A huge sweep by 6,500 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops in the Que Son Valley near Danang has turned up almost no enemy forces in an area that has long been a center of Communist activity. But in cities and hamlets throughout the country, a war of terror is rapidly heating up. The number of murders, kidnapings and other terrorist incidents has risen from 654 in January to 1,094 last month. The incidents last week...
Thanh My, located 18 miles south of Danang, had been considered one of the safer points in 1 Corps' Quang Nam province. The Communists apparently had no objective in mind other than to break that reputation by killing as many of Thanh My's men, women and children as they could in one night of terror...
...March 8, 1965, a 1,400-man force of the 9th Marines splashed ashore at Danang to become the first American ground-combat unit in South Viet Nam. The Communists were threatening to cut the country in two and the South Vietnamese army was collapsing. But that morning, the grunts in green met only rain, surf and a welcoming force of pretty girls. It was a placid preface to one of the bloodiest chapters in Marine Corps history...
...similar and more recent case is also under investigation. Five Marine enlisted men have been charged with murdering eleven children and five women last month at the hamlet of Son Thang, about 27 miles south of Danang. All are members of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Marine Division's 7th Regiment. A military board convened at Danang last week and will decide whether the five must face court-martial...
...music library. A couple of weeks ago, on the air, an Air Force newscaster introducing a piece of analysis by Eric Sevareid wryly suggested that it was sufficiently after-the-fact to avoid "the wrath of Vice President Agnew." He found himself demoted to a production crew in Danang...