Word: paddyfields
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...choppers) were shot out of the sky by Chinese-built 7.9-mm. antiaircraft cannons; another four "gunships" (helicopters carrying rockets and machine guns for close support) dropped like stones. Moments later, a Medevac chopper was downed-the ninth helicopter to fall in as many minutes. Pinned down behind low paddyfield dikes, the South Vietnamese called for air strikes. U.S. and Vietnamese fighter-bombers thundered in from as far away as Cam Ranh Bay to lay bombs, napalm and cannon fire within 150 ft. of the pinned-down infantrymen...
Once reasonable political stability has been restored, the allies will face the task of convincing the Communist insurgents that they have had only a brief reprieve in a war that the U.S. intends to fight to the last paddyfield...
Last week he almost made it again. Nursing their crippled craft, the two pilots kept airborne for 170 miles-then had to eject near the town of Thanh Hoa, within sight of the water but still over Ho Chi Minh's real estate. Risner landed in a paddyfield, his buddy several miles away. Their squadron mates, circling them, saw both flyers on the ground with no signs of injuries. But by the time rescue aircraft from the carrier Independence reached the area, Risner and his buddy had disappeared, and the beeps from Risner's emergency transmitter had ceased...
...paddyfield far out in the Dominican countryside, a bare-chested campesino whipped his straining oxen. "Go, you lovelies!" he cried. "Get up, you bastards!" Across the rich corn and platano fields of the Cibao Valley, fair-skinned, barefoot women toted gourds from roadside fountains to their thatched shacks, while nearby mounds of rice lay drying in the sun. In the mountains to the north, a grizzled farmer, Vicente Santiago, 65, worried his head over his ten children, his ten hens, his three acres of coffee, platano and corn-and little else. If there was trouble in Santo Domingo...
...merely saved the day at Songbe, it turned the tide completely in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu, 100 miles to the southwest. In a sharply executed "search-and-destroy" operation, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes spotted a concentration of some 600 Viet Cong in a dried-out paddyfield, then pinned them down while government troops were heli-lifted in. Surrounded on three sides, lashed by rockets and napalm, the Communists finally broke and ran. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. adviser...