Word: gia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chosen foothold was Gia Binh, a coastal village 300 yards south of the DMZ, and the Communists went to work with a fury. They laced Gia Binh with bunkers and tunnels, brought up mor tars, heavy machine guns...
...Phan Quang Dan, 48, another physician (he runs a clinic in Gia Dinh) and a favorite of Americans. Dan cam paigned for free trade unionism, free enterprise and a guaranteed minimum wage, urged meaningful land reform and an unrestrained legal opposition to any civilian government...
...them and suddenly I saw a train. Since then, we have destroyed several trains there and put the line out of commission." Last week, busy as ever, Kasler picked out some suspicious tracks leading into an out-of-the-way forested area near North Viet Nam's Mu Gia Pass. "I dropped down to 500 ft., and sure enough, there was a truck. My first burst of 20 mike-mike [Air Forcese for another helpful weapon, his 20-mm. cannon] hit it. It looked like a small Hanoi going off-there was a 2,500-ft. fireball." Joining...
...links to China, the U.S. was hitting so uncomfortably close to home that every defense had to be employed. Under the high drama of last week's dogfights, the workhorse bombers were busy as ever. Guam-based B-52s unloaded 300 tons of high explosives on the Mu Gia Pass infiltration route into South Viet Nam; Navy jets hit a SAM site near Vinh and sank 248 junks moving men and arms south by convoy. Whether the MIG commitment could partially turn that aerial tide remained to be seen...
...planes spot-bombed Mu Gia Pass, 230 miles south of Hanoi, one of the three most important supply funnels to the south. The bombs sent huge avalanches cascading into the pass, blocking the vital artery. As a bonus, some of the bombs were equipped with time fuses set to explode days after impact and thus inhibit digging-out operations. The word was that from now on, the B-52s will be used over the north whenever needed. Taking advantage of the traffic piled up behind Mu Gia by the avalanches, U.S. planes periodically bombed and strafed stalled convoys, sending gigantic...