Word: devoss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought that they had seen the last of Indochina have returned recently to help their successors cover the North Vietnamese invasion. For our cover story on Hanoi's General Giap, Neff concentrated on reporting an overview of the fighting and its ramifications as seen from Saigon. David DeVoss, meanwhile, journeyed north to Hué to provide an account of that city's mass evacuation. Rudolph Rauch traveled to the threatened Central Highlands town of Kontum, then spent a night on ambush patrol outside Phu Bai with a group of G.I.s...
...None of the terror-stricken ARVN units put up much of a struggle, but few faded as ignobly as the 1,200-man garrison at Tan Canh, the forward headquarters of the troubled 22nd. As one of the U.S. advisers who survived the debacle told TIME'S David DeVoss: "The only Vietnamization that was successful at Tan Canh was North Vietnamization...
...news. Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud, on vacation, had just arrived in Singapore en route to Bali. That was three weeks ago. Suddenly North Vietnamese troops poured south, U.S. bombers began flying north, and there was an indefinite moratorium on letter writing and vacations. Cloud, Rauch and Correspondent David DeVoss were spending long, hazardous days filing for two cover stories within three weeks. The report in this issue's Nation section includes articles on the Nixon Administration's policy making and the domestic and diplomatic implications of it, as well as the ground, sea and air combat...
...DeVoss, a Saigon correspondent for just three months, received a baptism by 122-mm. rocket fire when he was caught in a barrage outside ARVN headquarters in Chon Thanh. He covered the air war the hard way-as a passenger aboard an A-37 on a 90-minute dive-bombing mission over An Xuyen province. "It was Cinerama and Coney Island wrapped into one as we hurtled toward the earth at 300 m.p.h., then, glued to the seat, soared skyward," says DeVoss. The Air Force had thoughtfully lent him a pistol, knife, rope, radio, parachute and other survival items...
Vinh's American counterparts are cool, detached professionals, by and large emotionally uninvolved with the war. Last week Major Douglas Stockton, an A-37 pilot from Arlington, Texas, explained to TIME Correspondent David DeVoss that he did not really have anything against the North Vietnamese. "I just like to fly in combat situations," he said. "Last week I had just completed a pass at An Loc when an NVA soldier comes on my radio as clear as could be. 'Go away from Viet Nam, American G.I.,' the voice said. The people do not want...