Word: mortar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beginning two weeks ago and lasting for several nights, allied counter-mortar radar along the eastern edge of the DMZ, where the zone is bordered by the South China Sea, had indeed showed blips that looked like slow-moving, low-flying aircraft-like helicopters. American artillerymen had also reported sighting a series of strange moving lights near the Ben Hai River, the dividing line between North and South Viet Nam. Artillery and aircraft promptly opened fire on the targets and the blips disappeared...
Sandbag Shelters. The attack marked the 25th time in 38 days that rocket or mortar clusters had hit Saigon, and there are no longer any safe areas in the city. Each rocketing and each allied effort to dig out attacking Communist ground units cause fresh destruction and new refugees who stagger from the shattered homes, clutching meager possessions, dragging or carrying tearful, terrified children. Hospitals are packed-some 4,800 civilians have been treated for wounds since early May and refugee centers overflow under the tide of the more than 160,000 people made homeless in the past six weeks...
...maximum range of about seven miles, gunners are lucky if they hit within 400 yards of their target-but the lack of accuracy, if anything, enhances their terrorist effect. Despite allied ground and air patrols and radar-guided counterbattery fire, the Communists have thrown almost 400 rocket and mortar rounds at the capital since early May. The gunners have rarely been caught; last week, when 12,000 U.S. and Vietnamese troops fanned out to sterilize the rocket belt, they found little besides scarred firing positions and a few unlaunched missiles, some ingeniously cached in submerged sampans...
...virile confidence and irrepressible optimism that gave him the look and sound of a winner, had wanted badly to leave with victory in sight. Yet even as the Senate in Washington was unanimously confirming his appointment, Communist gunners were raking the South Vietnamese capital with Soviet-made rockets and mortar bombs. It is not as the winner that he bows out of Viet...
...wounded Americans, the way station between the battlefield and home is one of the superbly staffed US military hospitals that are strategically placed throughout South Viet Nam. TIME Correspondent Don Sider injured by a mortar shell, spent several days recovering in one of the wards of the 71st Evacuation Hospital in Pleiku and filed this report...