Word: firefight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wait until monsoons had swollen the streams and rivers down which they hoped to float. On June 29 they made their break. Dengler slipped his footcuffs, grabbed four rifles and a bag of rice while the guards were eating. The prisoners killed six of their captors in a flurried firefight, then split into pairs in hopes of making their escape route difficult to follow...
...wounded by blast fragments. UPI photographer Steve Van Meter asked an old man in a nearby building for some mosquito netting to bandage our wounded. The man shook his head. We offered him 500 piastres. Still no. With that Van Meter brushed the man aside, took the netting. The firefight was over with the big blast. Twenty minutes later, the Tinh Hoi loudspeaker announced that the rest of the newsmen were coming out of the pagoda and that this time there would be no shooting. We joined them and walked the last four blocks home...
...battalion, which he served as adviser, fought their way into a Viet Cong camp near Bong Son one night, only to find the place deserted. Then, at midnight, with the ammo running low, Captain Pete Dawkins, 27, had the V.C. red-dogging in on both flanks. After a quick firefight, Army's 1958 AllAmerica halfback huddled with his assistant, Lieut. Dick McDaniel, a former Nebraska end, and called for a "quick draw"-an artillery barrage from the nearby 1st Air Cavalry Division. That play scored fine, and afterward, as Dawkins and his unit rested in Saigon, Premier Nguyen...
...tactical air strikes from Navy bombers, were flushing out Viet Cong on all sides. In the first encounter, U.S. Marines killed four V.C. and captured six. The Vietnamese soon checked in with 28 dead Viet Cong, and the bombers picked off twelve more. Later, in one brief, fierce firefight, the marines killed 17 more Viet Cong and captured 21, suffering not a single U.S. casualty in the process. Marine Major General Lewis Walt flew into Batangan for a battlefield look, found himself "so proud of my marines I can hardly talk...
...perform with skill in the grinding day-in-day-out war. The only sure cure for battle fatigue is a transfusion of well-rested, eager combat troops like the 6,800 U.S. marines currently patrolling Danang airbase. Though the marines last week were finally blooded in their first real firefight with the Communists, they have yet to tangle with Viet Cong main force...