Word: danang
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...days. The only newsman still with the group, Iacobucci phoned periodic reports of the battle's progress back to Saigon. The Italian freelance also called friends to say goodbye-prematurely, as it turned out. Helicopters finally were able to take the advisers and Iacobucci to Danang. "In four years in Viet Nam," he says now, "I have never been so scared...
...sifts endlessly down, and you are told there are no flights anywhere or the road is closed." Once he had to hitch a ride on a Vietnamese air force plane evacuating wounded marines from Phu Bai. Despite these difficulties,Rauch managed three trips into Hue and a visit to Danang to interview U.S. pilots returning from their combat missions...
...swept over the destroyer U.S.S. Higbee. During two passes, they landed a bomb square atop the ship's magazine, causing an explosion that blew out a portion of the superstructure. One MIG was shot down, but four sailors were wounded and the Higbee was forced to withdraw to Danang for repairs...
...uncommitted North Vietnamese regiments enter the fighting, airpower would become more vital than ever, and last week the big U.S. buildup continued. Some 600 fighter-bombers were on hand at Danang and at bases in Thailand, as well as aboard the four carriers at Yankee Station. Two other carriers, the Midway and the Saratoga, were en route. As low clouds and drizzle kept U.S. Phantoms on the ground, South Viet Nam's own 700-plane air force took on an important role in the fighting; its ancient but effective Skyraiders, flown with daring by South Vietnamese pilots at treetop...
Lang, a ten-year-old Vietnamese, supported himself and his grandmother by begging in the streets of a small village south of Danang. One day he found something to play with-a white phosphorous grenade. It exploded, killing his two brothers and blinding his grandmother. Nor was Lang spared. The phosphorus seared his face, creating a mask of horror that no Hollywood makeup man could fashion. It also burned away his eye sockets and eyelids, leaving him with large frightened eyes that he cannot close...