Word: quang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city's northern edge by U.S. bombing, and whose putrefaction makes breathing in An Loc so difficult when the afternoon breeze comes up. Perhaps the best that can be said is that the city died bravely, and that-in a year that included the fall of Quang Tri and Tan Canh-is no small achievement...
...northern provinces. NVA tanks and artillery challenged the scanty defenses of Kontum last week, and the long-awaited attack on that vulnerable Highlands city might not be far off. But there was no sign of the expected push on Hué, the former imperial capital 24 miles south of Quang Tri, which is believed by allied strategists to be the main target of Giap's offensive. The four North Vietnamese divisions known to be in the area have made themselves so scarce that ARVN units have recently been dropping pajamaclad scouts into the countryside. Their assignment: find the evasive...
...divisional headquarters. There are only 50 Marine advisers, but they are sprinkled through South Viet Nam's elite marine units down to the battalion and even company level. In Military Region I (the northern provinces), the Marines are almost unduly proud of the tough fighting done at Quang Tri by their charges. They also complain that the Army advisers to the ARVN 3rd Division, whose collapse caused the loss of the city, had poor communication with the troops under their guidance...
Perhaps as Nixon had intended, the strikes had more impact in Saigon than in Hanoi. The tough decision to mine the harbors helped lift the gloom that had settled over President Nguyen Van Thieu and his South Vietnamese general staff in the wake of the abject ARVN collapses at Quang Tri and in most of the Central Highlands. The disasters had frozen Saigon into a paralytic numbness-the sort of debilitating shock that can quickly translate into a sudden and mortal collapse of morale. In order to boost the sagging spirits of the capital, ARVN set up a display...
...moreover, has been uncharacteristically reckless in his use of tanks. A U.S. officer in Saigon who saw tank duty in World War II says: "I never saw the Germans or ourselves expend armor at a rate comparable to the North Vietnamese. Last week they moved 25 tanks east of Quang Tri in broad daylight. All of them were destroyed or damaged. That's kind of foolhardy...