Word: quangngai
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...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...