Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strange sort of camaraderie prevails at Ta Lung. "In the mornings," says Colonel Toan, "the enemy likes to taunt us. 'Time to get up!' the Communist political officer shouts...
...young Vietnamese pilot skillfully eased the helicopter down into what the U.S. 101st Airborne Division used to call Firebase Veghel, named after a Dutch town into which units of the division jumped during the second World War. It is now called Ta Lung, and its guns form part of the forward defense perimeter of Hué. Fixed enemy positions are less than five miles to the west. Considering its front-line position, Ta Lung seemed remarkably bucolic...
...sure, if enemy guns shell the area, Ta Lung's guns respond to silence them...
Colonel Vo Toan, the district commander, described what he calls the "spider-web" tactics employed at Ta Lung: "We make sure the enemy doesn't venture too far. He is the butterfly and we are the spider. If he enters our web, we close in behind...
Died. General Alan Shapley, U.S.M.C., 70, who survived the sinking of the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor to become the ranking Marine Corps officer in the Pacific; of a lung tumor; in Bethesda, Md. Shapley was commander of the Arizona's 87-Marine detachment in December 1941 and one of the ship's nine Marine survivors. Awarded the Navy Silver Star for his gallantry during the Pearl Harbor attack, he served through much of the subsequent fighting in the Pacific and later in Korea, and in 1961 was named commanding general of the Fleet Marine Force...