Word: overran
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...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...
...attacks that, by the doctrines of Mao Tse-tung and North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap, are needed to finish off a guerrilla war. Two full Communist regiments overran a Special Forces fort at Dong Xoai, 55 miles north of Saigon, decimating three Vietnamese battalions in the war's biggest battle. The guerrillas seemed to be everywhere-and in strength. A full regiment overran Ba Gia; another annihilated a Vietnamese battalion in Binh Duong province; a third captured the town of Dak Sut; U.S. Special Forces defenders were bloodied at Bu Dop and Due Co. Talk...
Death in the Hay. With a battalion of undertrained rookies, Johnson-still a lieutenant colonel after eight years-was assigned to the Pusan perimeter, where he moved into position as a reserve unit. The next day the Communists overran the front lines. Johnson's battalion fought like veterans-and held. Later, near Tabu-dong, Johnson himself led a counterattack to regain a key sector, earning the nation's second highest award, the Distinguished Service Cross, for "extraordinary heroism in action." As Lieut. Colonel George Allen of Fairfax, Va., then one of his platoon leaders, recalls the battle...
...coordinated attack earlier this month, Canberra bombers swept in to blast a guerrilla stronghold near Pucuta, a tiny village 90 miles from Huan cayo. Ground forces overran the en campment, killing 20 guerrillas, but an other 40 managed to escape. A few days later, another will-o-the-wisp band of guerrillas attacked the village of Satipo, only 70 miles away, killing two policemen and a civilian before fading back into the hills...