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...week four more provinces had fallen to Communist control for a total of 17, fully three-fourths of South Viet Nam's territory. Six full South Vietnamese divisions had disintegrated. The Communists occupied such refugee-swollen coastal cities as Qui Nhon and Tuy Hoa, Nha Trang and Cam Ranh. Although they slowed their advance toward week's end, presumably to consolidate the huge areas that had unexpectedly fallen into their hands, they were also infiltrating men into the south at the rate of about 1,000 a day in preparation for what most analysts believed would be an assault...
...black market jumped from $51 to $140. The traffic halted only when the military took control of the Air Viet Nam flights to provide for their own families. Then came the welcome promise that the U.S. would begin an airlift to take 10,000 people a day to Cam Ranh, a half-hour's trip by air some 200 miles to the south. But still there was panic. Even the so-called priority evacuation flight, limited to Americans and Vietnamese with proven U.S. connections, brought hundreds of people stampeding to the gleaming white U.S. consulate. Mimeographed consulate passes were...
...roughly resembles one proposed by retired Army Lieut. General James Gavin, who in 1966 pro posed that American forces draw back to such easily defended enclaves along the South Vietnamese coast as Nha Trang, Cam Ranh, Qui Nhon and Danang itself. These populous cities have economic and military value; they also contain vital facilities such as harbors and airstrips that offer the best opportunity for successful defense. Although most American military experts rejected the enclave strategy when Gavin first proposed it, many of them are now giving Thieu high marks for his strategy of retreat...
Planes landed at Cam Ranh every six minutes; ships unloaded millions of tons of supplies there monthly; hundreds of thousands of soldiers flew into the base to be reassigned to the northern parts of South Vietnam. It was incredible to me then that three years before there had been nothing there but white sand and the startling blue water of the South China...
Last year I talked with a reporter who was in Cam Ranh about six months age. Sand drafts are covering the roads now, packs of wild dogs roam around the post and the 5000 beds of the 12th Evac Hospital are all empty. The street lights still turn on automatically every evening...