Word: devoss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reads the final entry last week in Saigon Correspondent David DeVoss's notebook. A metal fragment pierced the pages, and a few words are illegible because of blood streaks. Moments after he wrote his impressions, DeVoss was hit by North Vietnamese mortar fire. He was seriously wounded in his chest, arms and legs. He received immediate first aid on the scene, and was quickly flown by helicopter to the Third Field Hospital outside Tan Son Nhut Airbase, where he underwent emergency surgery. At week's end his condition was declared satisfactory...
...DeVoss is TIME'S youngest reporter in Viet Nam. He arrived there in January, when combat was relatively light. After the North Vietnamese began their Easter offensive, he covered major action all over South Viet Nam and became a virtual commuter on Route 13, which runs between Saigon and An Loc. He would set out from the capital in the morning by car to cover the progress of the South Vietnamese 21 st Division as it fought its way with agonizing slowness toward An Loc and the relief of the garrison encircled there...
...company in Hué, DeVoss had Photographer Dirck Halstead, an old Viet Nam hand who is on assignment for TIME. For Halstead it was a time for reflection as well as reunion. "Of the ten photographers in our group here in 1965 and '66," he says, "only four of us are still alive...
...refugees who stayed on in Hué found spots on the grassy banks of the Perfume River if they were lucky, in fetid vacant buildings if they were not. "Highway 1 is the setting for this Asian Grapes of Wrath,"' reported TIME Correspondent David DeVoss. "Some families ride atop trucks, others are jammed as many as five to a Honda, but most of them walk. Exhaustion, hunger and heat are not the only enemies they face. Land mines, carefully planted each night by the North Vietnamese, take their daily toll in suffering...
...hospital, the wounded were packed two to a bed. DeVoss talked with Hoang Thien, a 57-year-old laborer whose wife and daughter were there for treatment of shrapnel wounds from mines planted by the Communists on the shoulders of the roads. "The V.C. didn't want anyone to leave, because once the people go the B-52s come," said Thien. "But a V.C. rocket destroyed my house, so I had no choice. They shot at us so we don't go, but we ran for two days until we hit the mines." For the first time...