Word: nhon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven young patients, there is no better example of what C.O.R. can do than Tran Huu Nhon. When the car in which he was riding triggered a mine, Nhon, 14, was maimed by metal shards and searing gasoline. It took two days to reach Nhi Dong Children's Hospital in Saigon, and infection had spread across the burned one-third of his body. Skin grafts failed and Nhon's right hand was amputated, a typical last resort in Viet Nam. The raw burns on his head, arms and legs wept precious protein fluids he could not spare...
Each of the four logistical islands at Saigon, Cam Ranh, Qui Nhon and Danang orders, schedules, receives, stores and disburses more than 100,000 different kinds of items, from ammunition, tanks and jet fuel to fresh vegetables, frozen meat, typewriters and air-conditioning units. Significantly, the number is four times what the U.S. Army rates as the minimum needs of its present field force. So well served is the U.S. fighting man in the Viet Nam war that helicopter-supplied units can bring him two hot meals a day out in the field. Many a soldier or Marine is able...
...being found, every Communist soldier is under orders not to give away his unit's position by firing needlessly at an Allied reconnaissance plane. Last week more than 1,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese lay dead in the rice fields rimming Sweet Water Bay north of Qui Nhon, and another 950 captured -all because a Communist took an ir resistible potshot at a helicopter of the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile...
...south, at Qui Nhon, another 2,500 American troops debarked to join the 4,000-man brigade of the 4th Infantry Division in the Central Highlands. That brought the total U.S. force in South Viet Nam to 317,500-and for the first time in the war, the Americans outnumbered the South Vietna mese regular army (there are 388,000 more South Vietnamese under arms as militia and police). With more fighting like that at the Rockpile in the offing, every man will be needed...
...from home. Last week business was booming in An Khe Plaza, the sanitary "Sin City" that houses bars and brothels under strict Army medical supervision (TIME, May 6). Highway 19, the east-west road that was once controlled by Communist ambushes, is now open all the way from Qui Nhon. In General Norton's tidy mess on "the Hill," a high-rise hummock that houses division headquarters, officers show up at dinner in gleaming boots and bright, gold-and-black scarves-the colors...