Word: pleiku
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which the May 2nd Committee continually quote i their literature (e.g., Warner, The Last Confucian) contain detailed documentation of light infiltration by North Vietnamese until early March of 1962 and heavy infiltration from that time. The testimony of universally respected reporters, like Bill Mauldin, that the Viet Cong attacking Pleiku carried documents proving beyond doubt that they were part of a special mission form the North, is simply beyond dispute. Eighty tons of armament from the North were captured at Vung Ry Bay alone last Saturday. That the Pleiku attackers were not sheltered by the peasants because they were from...
...American and wounded a dozen in a battle outside Saigon. And at midweek, reports began reaching the capital that the Viet Cong had dealt the South Viet Nam army one of its worst defeats of the war in a battle near Phumy, a coastal city 70 miles east of Pleiku...
...that of security against future Viet Cong attacks. But it is doubtful whether anything approaching real security can be achieved in a guerrilla war. "I don't believe it will ever be possible to protect our forces against sneak attacks of that kind," said Defense Secretary McNamara after Pleiku. Quinhon occurred despite stringently tightened security, including U.S. sentries patrolling the hotel's roof...
...long after he reached Saigon, Mauldin beat his way 240 miles north to Pleiku, where his son Bruce, 21, a helicopter pilot, was flying combat missions. One of his first discoveries was that war correspondence is not what it used to be. In World War II, said Mauldin, newsmen joined a combat unit, slogged along with the men, lived the combat life for weeks or even months. But Mauldin was the only newspaperman at Pleiku. "These boys," said he of the station's troops, "are sitting out there like outposts in Indian country"-visited only rarely by correspondents...
...snapped a comprehensive image of the destruction, pausing only to help carry a wounded U.S. soldier to safety. He sent the pictures home, along with cabled eyewitness accounts, and he also fulfilled another self-assigned combat responsibility: he relayed messages to the wives of U.S. servicemen on duty at Pleiku, assuring them that their husbands had come through unharmed...