Word: dao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly 700 years ago, when Kublai Khan's Mongol hordes swept out of the north, Viet Nam's legendary military hero, Tran Hung Dao, sparked the courage of his beleaguered army by having them tattoo on their arms the words "Sat Dat" (Let's kill the Mongols). Though outnumbered more than 2 to 1, the Vietnamese routed the Mongols and drove them out of Viet...
Each hour, radio reports on battle progress pour into the headquarters of the U.S. Military Assistance Command on Saigon's Tran Hung Dao Street. Here, in a spare, map-hung office, behind an uncluttered grey desk, sits the new chief of the U.S. military mission, General Paul Donal Harkins, 57, who holds the top command in the one spot in the world where U.S. troops are involved in a shooting-if undeclared-war against Communists. Symbolic of his task are the three flags behind his desk: the U.S. Stars and Stripes, the yellow and red banner of South Viet...