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Thunder in the Compound. The bold est bit of Red butchery took place at Bagia, a tiny hamlet near Quangngai (see map, opposite page), where three South Vietnamese battalions were mousetrapped and mowed down in the worst single battle of the war to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Bloody Hills | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...strategic hamlet program, under which 59% of the South Vietnamese people have been brought into villages surrounded by moats and bamboo fences. As if in celebration of the event, government forces beat back a violent Viet Cong attack against a network of villages around the city of Quangngai, some 250 miles northeast of Saigon, where the government set up a successful fortified village complex in an area that the Reds had previously controlled. Departing from the usual Communist hit-and-run tactics, a battalion of Reds attacked the hamlets under cover of darkness, drove to the edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Great Emancipator | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

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