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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...
...Communist victory was not won at Chu Lai, Danang or Bien Hoa, or at any of those now not so strange sounding places. The victory was won exactly where Ho Chi Minh had known and said it would be won, in the hearts and minds of the American people: "The people of the United States do not have the determination to persevere in the struggle in Southeast Asia. When they grow tired of fighting, we will still be here...