Word: danang
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...ground on, the protest movement infected the Army itself. "Fragging" became part of the new vocabulary of the '60s. Occasionally units refused orders to go into combat. "Grunts" smoked marijuana openly at their firebases. Thousands came home contaminated with heroin. Race riots broke out among soldiers at places like Danang, even on an aircraft carrier in the South China...
March 6, 1965. First two battalions of Marine combat troops land at Danang for "limited security duty...
...Central Highlands and several districts in the once secure Mekong Delta (see map). Nearly all of that control is a direct result of the Easter offensive. So far, they have no significant hold on population centers, which may explain their recent thrusts into Quang Ngai province south of Danang, South Viet Nam's second largest city...
...casual stroller in Danang, South Viet Nam's second largest city has rarely looked more prosperous. Every store window is full. The shops are freshly painted, and for the first time in years an effort is being made to clean up the streets. In the central market there are baskets of bananas, lettuce flown in from Dalat, fresh oranges from Cambodia. A new air-conditioned hotel has just opened, and despite the withdrawal of American G.I.s, Danang's restaurants still offer Johnny Walker Scotch and Courvoisier Cognac...
...moving toward Saigon. The North Vietnamese are still staging ambushes on the road between Kontum and Pleiku in the Central Highlands, and there is sharp fighting in Binh Dinh province on the central coast. Worse still, the South Vietnamese suffered a major defeat three weeks ago south of Danang in the Que Son Valley, losing between...