Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impenetrable. Like clouds of giant dragonflies, helicopters hauled riflemen and heavy artillery from base to battlefield in minutes, giving them the advantages of surprise and flexibility. Tactical air strikes scraped guerrillas off jungled ridges, buried them in mazelike tunnels, or kept them forever on the run. Unheard from the ground, giant B-52s of the Strategic Air Command pattern-bombed the enemy's forest hideaways, leaving no sanctuary inviolable...
Abruptly, the ground rules had changed. Some 3,500 combat marines from Okinawa landed to secure Danang Airbase. Advance units of the 173rd Airborne also streamed in. One of the most significant U.S. moves was to assign U.S. planes to bomb and strafe Viet Cong units in South Viet Nam itself...
...camp's perimeter with Viet Minh dead, Plei Me would almost certainly have fallen. It was not the first time that air strikes saved the day. "The ground troops keep telling us that we are saving their necks," says Air Force Colonel James Hagerstrom, boss of the bustling Tactical Air Coordinating Center at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport. As it was, the Communists broke off their siege of Plei Me after nine days and 850 dead...
Even if it's way overdone in places, the screenplay of Evelyn Waugh's takeoff on California culture often hits where it hurts. Whispering Glades, the super cemetery for people, and The Happy Hunting Ground, its animal counterpart, are classics. Candy-lovers will recognize Terry Southern's hand immediately. Jonathan Winters is great as The Blessed Reverend Glenworthy and his poor brother Harry, cemetery keepers both; he's the ne-ne-na-na-no-nu baby Frickett grown...
...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...