Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time he stayed several months, working, he said, for the National Institute of Agrarian Reform. He met Che Guevara and came home bubbling about that "first-class hero." His apartment, a friend recalls, was littered with Cuban maps, flags, and a prominently displayed copy of Che Guevara's guerrilla warfare manual...
...except for a two-day excursion into neighboring Cambodia, he had no time for sightseeing. He was kept busy day after day at the hospital. There were two native orthopedic surgeons to train and a ward teeming with patients, many of them mangled victims of Viet Nam's guerrilla war. The cases, Dr. Grain says, were fairly routine-muscle and nerve operations, bone grafts and other reconstructive procedures. But not the conditions. Flypaper hung over the operating table, amebic dysentery was rampant, and blood for transfusions was in short supply. The thousand-bed hospital was so crowded that sometimes...
...irony of the Hueys' success is that they are makeshift killers, originally designed as utility aircraft and personnel carriers. But Huey pilots became convinced that their speedy, maneuverable choppers would be ideal support aircraft in the kind of guerrilla war situation that Southeast Asia presents. On their own, company personnel outfitted their Hueys with 16 homemade rocket mounts and four machine-gun brackets, pestered dubious brass for months to let them try out their ideas in action...
Psychological Effect. As a previously untried combat innovation, the Hueys can afford to experiment in heliborne assault tactics, are providing the Army with invaluable operational experience in new doctrines of guerrilla warfare. "We're writing the book of tactics ourselves," says Major Ivan Slavich, 35, commanding officer of the U.T.T. Company. In combat, the Hueys usually fly a circular "daisy chain" pattern so that each ship is always covered by the chopper immediately behind it. "Our machine guns have more actual killing power," says Slavich. "But our rockets seem to have a much greater psychological effect on the Viet...
...scorched rice fields, sorting out their targets like cowboys cutting steers from a herd. On one recent mission, the desperate Reds tried to lob hand grenades into the open side doors of the low-circling choppers. When two Hueys tried to box in and capture a fleeing Red guerrilla, he suddenly wheeled and headed straight for them, a hand grenade in each hand. A burst of gunfire from the choppers cut him down; both grenades exploded beneath his body. From the door of a grass hut, a guerrilla blazed away at a hovering Huey, missed its copilot by only...