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Near by, Pfc. Bruce Devert, 19, of Los Altos, Calif., one of 9,000 U.S. Marines assigned to guard the Danang airbase, which is the major staging center for the U.S. aerial bombardment of North Viet Nam, found himself "in a dark vacuum with the whole world made up of flashing noises and explosions...
Asleep in a scramble tent at the south end of the 10,000-ft. Danang airbase runway, U.S. Air Force Major George V. Moore of McCook, Neb., was rudely awakened at 1:25 a.m. "Suddenly there were explosions going off all around me," he said later. "I was knocked out of my bed and against the side of the tent...
...White House press release intended to cast doubt on the State Department statement. As it turned out, the presidential denial was a confirmation. It said that there has been "no change" in the "primary mission" of U.S. ground troops-that of guarding such installations as the Air Force at Danang. Of course, it continued, General Westmoreland is empowered to send U.S. combat units into battle, "if help is requested" by Vietnamese commanders...
...since last March, when U.S. Marines landed in Viet Nam. From the time of their arrival, the Marines have been moving through a five-stage plan geared to get them into full combat, side by side with the Vietnamese. In the first stage, they constructed a defense perimeter at Danang airbase; second, they sent out small patrols a mile or so beyond the defense line; third, they moved bigger patrols as far as five miles out, seeking to find and fight the Viet Cong; fourth, they moved out eight miles or more, accompanied by small Vietnamese combat units; and fifth...
Rice & Rifles. The main reason is U.S. escalation of the war in neighboring Viet Nam. U.S. jets, striking out of Thailand, Danang and the Gulf of Tonkin at supply routes from the north, have kept the Pathet Lao pinned down. Since North Viet Nam considers Laos a sideshow anyhow, the Laotian Communists recently have had short shrift in supplies from Hanoi...