Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Backed by prodigious U.S. airpower, they exultantly entered Tchepone, the key Communist transshipment site that had been pinpointed as a major objective. Almost immediately, 1,000 reinforcements were helilifted to the heights commanding the battered town, and ARVN commanders prepared for what may well be the climax of the Laotian campaign: a pitched battle with massed North Vietnamese forces. Tchepone bid fair to be the scene of one of the few set-piece battles of the war -reminiscent of the fierce Plei Me struggle of 1965, when two ARVN regiments, long before anybody talked about Vietnamization, trounced a North Vietnamese...
...Laos yesterday, the fighting was limited to a few Marine skirmishes south west of the Laotian border. The U. S. command reported that five more American helicopters were shot down over the weekend, raising the total...
...combined Thai-Laotian force from Savannakhet, near the western border of the panhandle, was to have moved eastward along Route 9 to Muong Phine, another major junction and site of the main enemy supply caches. That force is only halfway to its destination and bucking heavy resistance...
...ARVN force was to have been choppered 48 miles across the trail area to Attopeu, an important Communist-occupied Laotian town on the edge of the Bolovens Plateau; but helicopters supplying the Route 9 operation have been too busy to be diverted to the Attopeu mission...
Since the Laotian campaign began February 8, 48 helicopters and two jet fighter-bombers have been destroyed...