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Taking It Apart. Operation Lam Son 719 was suddenly over, 45 days after it had begun. But the withdrawal-and the Communist pursuit-had a momentum of its own. North Vietnamese tankers drove to within half a mile of the border, not only in their own Sovietbuilt machines but in some of the 30 or more American-made M41 tanks abandoned by ARVN in Laos. East of the border at Khe Sanh, the former U.S. Marine outpost from which most of Lam Son's 600 helicopters operated, enemy rocket and artillery fire thudded in round the clock; one night...
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