Word: phuoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marines in and carry out a permanent pacification. As a result, some 1,500 villagers who do not want to wait for the return of the Communists have already been escorted out of the valley. The marines were soon off hunting anew, as helicopters poured thousands of leathernecks into Phuoc Valley in search of the Viet Cong 1st Regiment. Directly to the south, Operation White Wing, which so far has accounted for nearly 1,500 Communists killed, continued in smaller-scale, company-size operations by the 1st Air Cav. Though Double Eagle and White Wing failed to make contact with...
Songbe, a scruffy cluster of hamlets atop a bluff just 75 miles northeast of Saigon. As the capital of Phuoc Long province, Songbe (pop. 2,000) was a perfect target for the Communists, who would like to capture a governmental seat and proclaim their own "provisional government"-thus permitting Communist and nonaligned sympathizers to recognize their regime...
Farther to the north-the government outpost of Phuoc Chau-the Reds bit off more than they could handle. It was 3 a.m. when the Viet Cong opened up with a mortar barrage on the badly outnumbered garrison, which was there mainly to protect peasants in a nearby valley who had been paying forced tribute to the Reds. Supported by machine guns, the Communists stormed the barbed-wire perimeter, but were thrown back by the determined fire of the government forces...
Dusty Halt. A long column of army trucks drove 27 miles north of Saigon, straight into an arc of Red-controlled territory that provides a safe Communist 50-mile "supply corridor from the Cambodian frontier to the province of Phuoc Thanh. As the first light of dawn slanted down through the thick forest in the district of Ben Cat, the truck column came to a dusty halt, 600 troops of the Vietnamese 5th Division poured over the tail gates and fanned out across the harvested rice fields and rubber plantations to flush out Communists. Typically, the Viet Cong faded away...
Catching Hell. A rescue battalion of Vietnamese paratroopers arrived in the morning. They found Phuoc Thanh gutted by fire, with 42 of its defenders dead and 35 wounded. The Communists had captured 100 rifles and 6,000 rounds of ammunition, and had freed from jail 270 suspected Communist prisoners. Then the entire party had vanished in the jungle...