Word: pranged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Song, two miles from the Cambodian frontier. Since then the province has been cut off from the rest of the country except by air. Most of the fighting has focused north of Gia Nghia, the dingy province capital. Some 4,000 North Vietnamese are entrenched near by at Bu Prang, an advance outpost lost by the South Vietnamese at a cost of 150 killed and missing...
...Nghia has been stalled to the north of Dak Song. Streams of UH-1 (Huey) helicopters, laden with troops, take off from the provincial capital only to return half an hour later because they cannot penetrate the low clouds and land in the combat zone. The loss of Bu Prang was a bitter blow to ARVN because it lies astride the new infiltration route stitched together by the North Vietnamese since the cease-fire and running from the DMZ along the western rim of South Viet Nam. The military insists that the province will not fall. Others...
...half-eaten meals and abandoned NVA rucksacks and mess kits, but no NVA. OPERATION PACIFY WEST ONE, directed at Base Area 702 in the densely foliaged Central Highlands. It was from this sanctuary that the Communists masterminded a host of battles, including the recent assaults on camps at Bu Prang and Due Lap. Elements of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division and Saigon's 22nd Division are involved in the operation, which promises to be particularly arduous because wild terrain rules out anything but travel by foot. Like Bold Lancer, the exercise got off to a sputtering start; vicious ground...
Presidential Pressure. The battle was an eight-week engagement involving the Special Forces camps of Bu Prang and Due Lap in the Central Highlands along the Cambodian border. At least eight battalions under the command of the ARVN 23rd division, which had failed twice in the past two years to repulse enemy attacks, fended off three seasoned North Vietnamese regiments, numbering about 5,000 men. Last week, as the Communists withdrew to base camps farther north in Cambodia...
...late October, when the Communist troops began to mass around Bu Prang and Due Lap, American commanders warned Colonel Vo Van Canh, the commander of the 23rd division, that they would give him air and artillery support, but that he would have to handle the ground fighting himself. Under personal pressure from President Nguyen Van Thieu to seize the initiative, Canh ordered the 23rd to ferret out the North Vietnamese before they could mount an attack. In a series of daily skirmishes, Colonel Canh's troopers swept the wooded ridge lines of the Central Highlands, preventing the enemy from...