Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hoped to establish an American-style republic. Most politically conscious Vietnamese peasants, on the other hand, were not excited by republican slogans. They were more interested in economic power which they could use to break the power of the landlords and achieve a decent life. They supported Ho Chi Minh...
...power in the world, why did these people continue fighting? Who were these Vietnamese, and why did they rebuild bridges with their bare hands and go into battle against an enemy that was vastly superior in the weapons of modern war? Why did they troop down the Ho Chi Minh trail, year after year, to face almost certain annihilation...
...power in the world, why did these people continue fighting? Who were these Vietnamese, and why did they rebuild bridges with their bare hands and go into battle against an enemy that was vastly superior in the weapons of modern war? Why did they troop down the Ho Chi Minh trail, year after year, to face almost certain annihilation...
...chairs. On New Year's Eve in 1971 Peggie Duggan received an unexpected visit from an Air Force major with a grim message: the F-4D jet fighter flown by her husband, Major William Young Duggan, 38, had been shot down that same day over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. It was his second combat tour in Viet Nam, his 454th combat mission-and in the 17 months since then nothing has been heard about...
...dissident intellectuals and professionals and at least ten battalions of Cambodian-born Vietnamese-a minority group that was massacred after the coup by Lon Nol's troops, who whipped up traditional anti-Vietnamese enmity to a frenzy. There are also battle-seasoned remnants of the old Khmer Viet Minh who fought against the French and went to North Viet Nam after the 1954 Geneva agreements. Intelligence sources estimate that 1,800 of these men have been put in command positions...