Word: phuoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gray dawn ten years ago, five U.S. soldiers were killed and twelve wounded during a Communist commando attack on Phuoc Binh, the capital of Phuoc Long province. That marked the Viet Cong's first offensive against the picturesque hill town of about 25,000 people located 75 miles north of Saigon on a bend of the Song Be River. Last week, after a violent six-day siege of the city, the Communists finally captured Phuoc Binh. During the drive they also took a key crossroads and two airstrips, as well as every village and town in Phuoc Long province...
...Communist offensive began in mid-December, when the North Vietnamese 7th Division overran the district town of Due Phong on Route 14. Gradually moving southwest, the Communist forces captured a series of government outposts, eventually pushing South Vietnamese troops into the outskirts of Phuoc Binh. Just after the New Year, the North Vietnamese began a heavy shelling of Phuoc Binh, although they allowed civilians to escape along footpaths to the South...
...made it impossible for government helicopters carrying reinforcements to land within the city. In the end, the South Vietnamese were only able to put two Ranger companies totaling about 200 men into the battle. After two days of close fighting between outnumbered government troops and Communist tanks and sappers, Phuoc Binh was in North Vietnamese hands. By the time Saigon's air force belatedly started to bombard the area, destroying what remained of the small lumbering town, the Communist attackers had already withdrawn into their well dug-in and camouflaged shelters in the surrounding forests. Some 1,500 civilians...
...eleven provinces surrounding Saigon. The town of Cu Chi, the rear headquarters of the 25th ARVN Division, was shelled. Communist mortar and artillery attacks in Tay Ninh province, especially around Nui Ba Den (Black Virgin Mountain), drove thousands of terrified refugees into already crowded Tay Ninh City. In Phuoc Tuy province, the Communists are attempting to gain control of several rubber plantations near the town of Long Thanh. Not far from there, they have organized the 301st Regiment of the so-called People's Liberation Armed Forces. Government military analysts believe this new command will direct intensified attacks around...
...would a hundred Saigon soldiers, outnumbered 5 to 1 and facing two T-54 tanks, fight ferociously to hold the strategically unimportant town of Phuoc...