Word: hagerstrom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...