Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...banana plantations, the tough troops of three North Vietnamese divisions -the 324B, 325th and 610th- were dug in and waiting, listening for the bugle calls that would order them south. On the Rockpile and the Razorback and scores of other hilltops from the South China Sea to the Laotian border, seven battalions of U.S. Marines, backed by eight South Vietnamese army battalions, were dug in and watching, wondering when the attack would come...
...Laotian Roulette. When he came to, his guards amused themselves with Laotian roulette: "I was tied to a tree and used for target practice-the guards tried to see how close they could come to hitting me." Finally, three weeks after his crash, Dengler was led into a bamboo stockade somewhere near the trail and locked up in crude, wooden "footcuffs" with six other U.S. flyers. The prisoners were fed a handful of rice twice a week, supplemented their diet with snakes and anything else that crawled through their hut. "Once," Dengler recalled, "we caught a snake that had swallowed...
When the 1954 Geneva Conference divided Viet Nam in two, it established a demilitarized buffer zone between the Communist North and anti-Communist South. The zone is six miles wide. It roughly follows the 17th parallel from the mountainous Laotian border in the west through thickly jungled foothills to the fertile paddies along the coast. For twelve years, it was the quietest place in all of Viet...
...South Korea. But much of its work is strictly irregular. It was Air America pilots who dropped supplies to the French defenders of Dienbienphu before the stronghold fell in 1954. The company's next big assignment came two years later, when the U.S. moved to support the Laotian royalists in the Communist-inspired civil war. Thirty or so Air America planes dropped the rice and weapons that enabled royalist troops and Meo tribesmen to fight the Communist Pathet Lao to a standstill...
...left the Laotian airstrip at Pakse at 10:25 a.m., flying at 2,500 ft. Some 23 minutes later, my pilot announced: 'We are now at the Cambodian border.' Two minutes later we had located the trail. It snaked out of Cambodia, clear as a road map. The area was flat and only spottily foliaged. I could see the Se Kong River in the background. A note I made at the time says: 'No question about it. From the river going east [toward South Viet Nam] is a large road. The trail winds and turns, the trees...