Word: nhon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like some ponderous snake, the long convoy labored up the steep switchbacks on Route 19. Guards nervously rode rifle atop every truck. Three hours out of coastal Qui Nhon, the vehicles pulled into Mang Yang pass-favorite ambush point for the Viet Cong on the 100-mile highway to Pleiku. Along the edge of the narrow road were massive craters. To clear the V.C. from the pass, high-flying B-52s from Guam had blasted Mang Yang with bombs the night before. Once past the pass, the guards relaxed, and the convoy-the first since the end of May-rolled...
...South Vietnamese troops deployed in the largest military operation mounted by Saigon since the war began, requiring an airlift that tied up virtually every transport plane in South Viet Nam for days. Though the effort succeeded, and by week's end supplies were rolling daily from Qui Nhon to Pleiku, the magnitude of the effort underscored how thoroughly the Viet Cong have chopped South Viet Nam into isolated shards. Only a fraction of the nation's 4,000 paved miles of road are freely passable; of more than 600 miles of railroad trackage, a mere 100 remain usable...
Within the past month, hard-core Viet Cong battalions have captured 70 of the 82 government-defended hamlets in Hoai Nhon district. Hoai Nhon (pronounced why none) is the strategic key to control of Binh Dinh province. And if Binh Dinh, with its highways, harbors and airbases, falls, South Viet Nam is effectively decapitated...