Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It was the last determined gamble of Saigon's government to reassert its authority. Premier Nguyen Cao Ky was striking directly at rebellious elements in his own army and indirectly at the militant Buddhists. The clash began with the lightning predawn "invasion" of rebellious Danang by Vietnamese marines loyal...
On the killing ground of South Viet Nam itself, very little of equal value was happening. In a panic-stricken debacle along Saigon's Hai Ba Trung Street U.S. military police opened fire on a truckload of civilian dockworkers and killed six of them. In Danang far to the...
When the war is shown, it takes place in deserted surroundings, as if everyone cleared out when this camera crew came around. The strategic hamlet is empty except for a lone cow; the soldiers marching through a plantation seem to be going nowhere; the American presence in Vietnam comprises a...
Back at Colonel Yeu's forward command post, Yeu was angered by the harassment of loyal Vietnamese air force planes, loudly threatened to shell the airfield immediately. The marines first ordered the Vietnamese airmen to stop their flights. Then Colonel John Chaisson jumped into an armed helicopter, flew to...
The Americans finally persuaded Yeu to meet with Danang's new commander, General Ton That Dinh, who had arrived from Saigon. The two officers talked, slapped each other's back, seemed to reach an agreement for the removal of the howitzers. But Yeu kept them trained on the...