Word: monsoon
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...fire only on shore batteries that fired first on them or on radar stations tracking U.S. ships for targeting purposes. Other coastal targets-roads, trucks, trains, SAM missile sites-have been taken care of by the fleet's fighter-bombers, whose activity is drastically curtailed during the monsoon month of March. Last week Navy guns attacked those North Vietnamese targets as well. The guided-missile destroyer U.S.S. Joseph Strauss opened up with 5-in. guns that lob 54-lb. shells from ten to 14 miles. Two minutes later, the guided-missile cruiser U.S.S. Canberra began firing its eight-inchers...
...Manila Conference, schools and a diesel train. The Chieu Hoi men will even distribute 100,000 games played with dice to V.C. families. In the game, both sides try to get all their pawns to the defection centers through such obstacles as the Ho Chi Minh trail and monsoon rains. Players are sometimes required to start over because of fatigue, worry and air strikes...
...Your monsoon offensive ended in defeat: start over...
...Delta, but the Viet Cong main force units are equipped with modern Chinese weaponry that equals in firepower the South Vietnamese force that has opposed them up to now. Principal Red sanctuaries are the mangrove swamps along the coast, the Plain of Reeds, which is alternately under monsoon waters or a brick-hard bed of dried mud in the dry season, and the U Minh "Forest of Darkness" infested by poisonous snakes and king-size stinging ants as well as by the Viet Cong...
...enemy's plans for a major monsoon offensive in the Central Highlands last summer were aborted by such U.S. spoiling operations as Paul Revere and Hawthorne. Operation El Paso broke up an attempted Communist onslaught along the central coast. Most recently, Hanoi began massing for an invasion straight south across the demilitarized zone: some 8,800 U.S. Marines and four battalions of South Vietnamese troops are now in place to prevent it. Hanoi covets a victory over some isolated American unit for its psychological and propaganda value, but this hope has proved elusive. Already this year, the Communists have...