Word: tans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...short, wiry man with a sharp tongue, Vann had a penchant for being in the thick of the fighting. In late April, two helicopters were shot out from under him before he managed to rescue several American advisers from the surrounded headquarters of the 22nd ARVN Division at Tan Canh. In the last weeks of his life, Vann dedicated himself to the defense of Kontum. "There is nothing else for him now," TIME Correspondent John Mulliken wrote recently, "but the saving of Kontum. Like a French colonial, he has no real ties any more with home. He will live...
...illegible because of blood streaks. Moments after he wrote his impressions, DeVoss was hit by North Vietnamese mortar fire. He was seriously wounded in his chest, arms and legs. He received immediate first aid on the scene, and was quickly flown by helicopter to the Third Field Hospital outside Tan Son Nhut Airbase, where he underwent emergency surgery. At week's end his condition was declared satisfactory...
...Tan Canh's ordeal began with a two-day artillery barrage. At one point, the Communist fire was coming from 16 different locations, many of them abandoned firebases where the North Vietnamese had captured ARVN'S 105-mm howitzers intact. By night, Tan Canh's terrified defenders gaped at an extraordinary sight across the valley, as Communist tanks advanced, along with supply trucks that boldly kept their lights turned on. "For a while," said one adviser, Lieut. Charles Vasquez, "it looked like a Los Angeles freeway. All across the ridge line I could see a glow from...
...four crewmen died when another chopper that had come to pick them up at Dak To was shot down shortly after taking off.) In all, some 600 ARVN troops were dead or missing after the collapse. Said Captain Richard Cassidy, one of five advisers who survived the disaster: "Tan Canh fell because ARVN never got off its ass and fought." The word out of Saigon was that the regional commander, flamboyant Lieut. General Ngo Dzu, had suffered a "heart flutter," which seemed to indicate that he would be relieved shortly...