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...thins. With the U.S. buildup, incoming cargo has increased tenfold in half a year, to 800,000 tons last month-and 60% of it must pass through Saigon. The average wait for a ship to be unloaded is 22 days at Saigon, 31 at Cam Ranh Bay, 40 at Danang-though both Cam Ranh and Danang are rapidly being improved...
...allies purposefully set out to be ambushed-and thereby lure the Communist ambushers into a giant ambush of allied design. The prey: some 3,700 veteran Viet Cong troops who have been roaming at will up and down the province of Quang Tin between the coastal Marine enclaves at Danang and Chu Lai. The province, for more than a year a hardcore Communist stronghold beyond the reach of government troops, is a paddy-checkered producer of rice used to feed enemy troops. It is harvest time. And Viet Cong control of the region has made Route One-the natural north...
...Operation Harvest Moon's" plan was simple enough. Vietnamese troops were to move deep into Quang Tin as bait. When the Viet Cong struck, waiting U.S. Marine units at Danang, Chu Lai and aboard the aircraft carrier two Juma would helilift in to the rescue, surround, and hopefully wipe out the Viet Cong attackers...
Close Secret. The joint company is building a 10,000-ft. concrete runway and port facilities at Danang, another 10,000-ft. runway, parking aprons and a deep-draft pier at Chu Lai, an airfield extension, a helipad and a storage warehouse at Qui Nhon. At Cam Ranh, where a huge port facility is going up, it is building ammunition depots, anchorages, runways, aprons and taxiways; at Bien Hoa parking areas for planes, storage warehouses and cantonments. It is building a new U.S. embassy in Saigon, is developing an island in the middle of the Saigon River on which...
...hundred country roads and rivers from Danang to the Mekong Delta, South Vietnamese soldiers were guarding strategic installations, escorting convoys, opening routes, and clashing with small but savage Viet Cong bands whose bullets were just as merciless as those of the North Vietnamese around Plei...