Word: delta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coming in for a landing at a little Mekong Delta town, the lumbering, freight-laden C-47 was a perfect target. The Viet Cong did not miss, putting bullets through the shoulder, leg and arm of the pilot of the Air America civilian transport ferrying rice under contract to the U.S. Government. As the crippled plane headed down to a crash landing in a small canal, the copilot frantically radioed for a rescue helicopter. Minutes later, the chopper arrived - and out of the downed plane jumped two men who were in the uniforms of the American pilot and his Vietnamese...
American has plenty of company in its quest to become the third U.S. airline (after Northwest and Pan Am) to span the Pacific. Eastern, Western and Continental have made similar applications to the CAB. United, which already flies to Hawaii, intends to ask for an extension to Tokyo. Delta and TWA will probably also put in bids...
...still in doubt. Physically, the Viet Cong still occupied between 70% and 90% of the entire country, though much of it was barely habitable-dank mangrove swamps in the Mekong Delta, spiny ridges in the highlands, dense rain forests above Saigon...
Ground fighting continued as American paratroopers, units of New Zealanders, and South Vietnamese pursued Viet Cong forces through the mud of the Mekong Delta towards the Cambodian border...
Down in the Mekong Delta, South Vietnamese infantrymen flushed another hidden hard-core Viet Cong unit into fierce fighting scarcely 40 miles southwest of Saigon. The Communists blasted back with machine guns and 57-mm recoilless rifles. Saigon soon concluded that it had a veteran Viet Cong battalion at bay, ordered in the largest number of Vietnamese troops to be used in a single battle in the long war to try to encircle and crush the Reds...