Word: helilifting
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...Operation Harvest Moon's" plan was simple enough. Vietnamese troops were to move deep into Quang Tin as bait. When the Viet Cong struck, waiting U.S. Marine units at Danang, Chu Lai and aboard the aircraft carrier two Juma would helilift in to the rescue, surround, and hopefully wipe out the Viet Cong attackers...
...said; PASS SECURED COURTESY A CO 2ND BN ABN 502ND. The "First Cav" is the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division, and it calls itself the "First Team"-the proud boast of a unit lineage that extends back through Korea and the Philippines to General Custer. Last week, by helilift direct from the U.S.S. Boxer and by road convoy from Qui Nhon, the First Team arrived in full force along Route...
...Viet Cong were clearly willing to fight when they were engaged, whether in the delta or farther north. Up in Quang Tin province, near Danang, a helilift of South Vietnamese paras, hoping to provoke a big battle, made contact with the Communists in a slough of serried hills, scuffled briefly but bloodily, then withdrew to regroup. The Viet Cong did not press their advantage, so the government troops waded in again. By week's end more than 300 Reds had been killed. Government losses were 34 dead-plus two U.S. Marine Corps advisers killed by ground fire...
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