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Close Secret. The joint company is building a 10,000-ft. concrete runway and port facilities at Danang, another 10,000-ft. runway, parking aprons and a deep-draft pier at Chu Lai, an airfield extension, a helipad and a storage warehouse at Qui Nhon. At Cam Ranh, where a huge port facility is going up, it is building ammunition depots, anchorages, runways, aprons and taxiways; at Bien Hoa parking areas for planes, storage warehouses and cantonments. It is building a new U.S. embassy in Saigon, is developing an island in the middle of the Saigon River on which...
...late August the advance party was on the job: preparing near An Khe deep in the Viet Cong-infested Central Highlands a giant helipad for the First Team's covey of copters. The division's assistant commander, Brigadier General John M. Wright, took machete in hand to show his men how to do it, chopping away the scrub without disturbing the grass, so as to avoid dust storms as the choppers rotated in and out. Today the First Team's garrison at An Khe is the largest concentration of fighting men and machinery in Southeast Asia since...
...secretly at work on a clearing just north of An Khe on Route 19, deep in the Viet Cong-infested highlands. Using only machetes to clear the copse so as to keep the sod in place, the Americans hacked out a gigantic 3,000-ft. by 4,000-ft. helipad, a 4,000-ft. runway, and bivouac space for no fewer than...
...runs an airplane taxi company, and his mother is an accomplished pilot, as is an older brother. Even his twelve-year-old brother David can fly the family Aztecs, although the law insists a pilot be 16 before he can solo. Gregory's window overlooks the Potter family helipad, and he is now empowered to take out the family chopper any time. This puts him one up on his father, who has not got around to taking that test...
Within ten minutes after taking off from the airbase helipad, the chopper carrying Jackie, Jack and Dr. John Walsh set down in a 35-m.p.h. wind on Squaw Island, site of Brambletyde, the Kennedys' shingle-sided, rented summer home. Obstetrician Walsh advised Jackie to abandon her social calendar for the remainder of the year, including the up coming state dinners for the King of Afghanistan Sept. 5 and the Emperor of Ethiopia Oct. 1 , to ensure "complete rehabilitation and continuing good health...