Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...source of allied discontent is plain. The winding 400-mile boundary is, from a Communist point of view, delightfully permeable. At its northern end, opposite Vietnam's central highlands, it runs through deep tropical jungle, uninhabited and immune to air observation. Its southern reaches, along the Mekong River, are under five feet of water during the monsoons...
Though he was the son of a successful Los Angeles realtor, David Gitelson, 26, lived in Viet Nam like the lowliest peasant. His home was a palm-frond shack in Ba The, a tiny Mekong Delta village 25 miles from the nearest U.S. settlement. Carrying all his worldly possessions in a wheat sack, Gitelson traveled the back canals of the Delta in sandals and faded Levi's, entertaining peasants with his concertina and instructing them in the modern farming methods he had picked up as an honor student at the University of California at Davis. The peasants called...
...where the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) has so often punished the enemy, the Communists hit an Air Cav base, destroyed two helicopters and penetrated the perimeter before being repulsed. At the Dong Ba Thien airfield just north of Cam Ranh Bay, attackers using satchel charges destroyed nine helicopters. In the Mekong Delta, long a Viet Cong haven, the situation seemed even more serious. The Communists held half the important city of My Tho and parts of several provincial capitals...
...alone, the Communists lost 54 dead at Gio Linh near the Demilitarized Zone in the northern province of Quang Tri, 56 near Danang, 471 at Bong Son in the center of the country along the coast, 143 north of Saigon, 39 northwest of the capital, and 501 in the Mekong Delta in the south. In all, 65 Americans and 78 South Vietnamese died in the battles. Meanwhile, Ho's homeland was heavily pounded last week by U.S. fighter-bombers. As monsoon clouds cleared for the first time in three weeks, American jets blasted downtown bridges and railyards in both...
...North Carolina, Sloan volunteered for Vietnam but instead was shipped to Munsan-ni, Korea because he didn't have the rank to get to Vietnam. After nine months in Korea and a promotion to SP4, Sloan again volunteered for Vietnam and finally made it to Can Tho in the Mekong by April...