Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fire Base Six, a military outpost close to the juncture of Laos. Cambodia and South Vietnam has been under siege since March...
Earlier in the day. Wacker had spent more than two hours with Farnsworth. Although Wacker is well acquainted with the UHS outpost at the Medical School, he said, "Today was my first visit ever to the Harvard Health Services [in Cambridge...
...South Vietnam, U.S. helicopters broke a ring of Vietcong fire Sunday to resupply a South Vietnamese artillery outpost under siege for 12 days. Most of the helicopters were called back before reaching the base after the North Vietnamese downed one chopper...
...North Vietnamese tankers drove to within half a mile of the border, not only in their own Sovietbuilt machines but in some of the 30 or more American-made M41 tanks abandoned by ARVN in Laos. East of the border at Khe Sanh, the former U.S. Marine outpost from which most of Lam Son's 600 helicopters operated, enemy rocket and artillery fire thudded in round the clock; one night last week 40 Communist sappers slipped past the perimeter wire and destroyed or damaged five choppers. At week's end G.I.s were dismantling everything that they...
Deeper inside Laos, at an outpost known as Hill 31, an ARVN airborne battalion was locked in a ferocious seesaw struggle with a Communist force of up to 2,000 men, backed by Soviet-made PT-76 light tanks. As the fighting raged, the smoking hulks of broken Communist tanks and shattered U.S. helicopters littered the battlefield; B-52 strikes thundered so close, said a downed chopper crewman, that the dust "made our eyes water." Though the outcome of the battle remained in doubt at week's end, the Lam Son toll was already substantial: in three weeks...