Word: overran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that end, they brought in 60 bulldozers to clear wide swatches of the jungle that served the Communists as cover. They confiscated tons of food and equipment, overran and demolished scores of V.C. installations, ranging from an underground hospital to a regimental base camp. They also decided upon a more drastic step: to raze all hamlets in the area, resettling the 8,000 or more inhabitants elsewhere, where the V.C. could no longer rely on them for information, food and shelter. The removal of the villagers will also make future identification easier: henceforth, anyone found there is almost bound...
...zone in the northern Ia Drang Valley near the Cambodian border, where a North Vietnamese regiment had been spotted. No sooner had four of the six choppers unloaded than an enemy ambush opened up from the surrounding jungle. Most of the men were cut down in their tracks. Three overran one enemy machine-gun nest, only to be chopped up by another. "Sergeant Shockey," the platoon's first sergeant called out, "the commander's dead, and I'm dying. Take over the platoon." Moments later, Sergeant Leroy Shockey himself was felled...
...middle of last week, the enemy's major troop units had faded away, and the U.S. and South Vietnamese battalions were sweeping forward almost at will. They overran an enemy regimental staging area, a base camp, a 100-bed hospital with 1,200 lbs. of medical supplies, and a V.C. reception area strung with banners reading "Welcome to the National Liberation Front...
...achieve surprise, Dayan delayed general mobilization until the last possible moment before his attack. Then, on Oct. 29, he dropped 395 paratroopers from 16 lumbering Dakotas near the Mitla Pass, only 45 miles from Suez. The first 100 hours of the nine-day war were decisive: the Israelis overran most of the Sinai, took thousands of Egyptian prisoners and hundreds of tanks, self-propelled guns and trucks. The cost of the war to Israel: 172 Israeli dead, and one taken prisoner...
...Airborne's artillery and mortars laid a curtain of steel down the hillside. Some U.S. units were hit hard by Giap's "human wave" mass attack: Company Commander William Carpenter (see THE NATION) heroically called down napalm strikes on his own position when Communist troops overran it. But at week's end the Airborne and Vietnamese forces had killed an estimated 700 North Vietnamese...