Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First reactions were ebullient. "Any news concerning a bombing halt is a relief," said Banker Nguyen Xuan Oanh. "The conclusion is that the war will end." A farmer uprooted from his Mekong Delta paddies planned to "go to my rice again." Adding to the euphoria, the government pushed the 10 p.m. curfew up to 11 p.m. "We now talk," said a Saigon journalist, "of spending our next Tet in peace...
...trips along the St. Lawrence River during Expo 67 and proved to be one of the fair's most popular attractions. Now it is being used for such diverse purposes as ferrying passengers between British coastal resort towns and hunting down Viet Cong in the swamps of the Mekong Delta...
When the U.S. Navy launched its Mobile Riverine Force in South Viet Nam's canal-laced Mekong Delta, it soon became obvious that servicing the mini-flotilla was a maxi-headache. Riverine's little boats would slip into the maze of marshlands for long patrols, far from the medical and military aid of the mother ship anchored in one of the larger rivers. The most obvious means of supply was by helicopter, but most of the Delta is too wet and soft to support the weight of a chopper...
...Communists' target was the Royal Thai Air Force Base at Udorn, one of five Thai fields from which U.S. fighter-bombers fly daily strikes into North Viet Nam and Communist-held parts of Laos. Udorn, only a few miles from the Mekong River border with Laos, has a complement of 6,000 American airmen, two fighter-bomber squadrons and two tactical reconnaissance squadrons. Like the other Thai bases, it was considered a safe haven; as one U.S. serviceman put it not long ago: "It's a big thing when you don't have...
...Summoning help, he dragged the injured men to safety through a storm of fire. > Navy Boatswain's Mate First Class James E. Williams, 37, is the unlikeliest-looking hero. He is a roly-poly father of five with 20 years of Navy service. In October 1966, in a Mekong River backwater, Williams led two patrol boats into a mass of sampans and junks loaded with Viet Cong troopers. Outnumbered and outgunned, the patrol sank 28 sampans, damaged 25 more and captured six enemy vessels. >Richard A. Pittman, 22, is a civilian now. Back in July 1966, as a Marine...