Word: trang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Military Region II, the twelve provinces of central South Viet Nam, the losses were equally staggering. One of the best infantry divisions, the 23rd, was completely annihilated in the battle for Ban Me Thuot, with no more than 700 of its 9,000 troops able to regroup in Nha Trang. Throughout the central region, five of seven ranger groups were put out of action, two of four cavalry regiments and eight of twelve artillery battalions; 100 air force planes were also lost. In all, roughly half of Saigon's 179,000 troops in the area were out of action...
...take refugees to Cam Ranh, 300 miles to the south, passengers were shot or pushed overboard by soldiers trying to make room for themselves. Other evacuation vessels, including flat tug-drawn barges, took three days under the scorching sun with neither food nor water to make the Danang-Nha Trang trip. The vessels were so packed with people that most had to stand for the entire journey, except for those who died en route. Six children and two elderly men were taken dead from one barge after it landed in Nha Trang. Two colonels aboard the boat were subjected...
Before the fall of the coastal resort of Nha Trang, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter cabled: "The real enemy that is now engulfing the country is not those 16 North Vietnamese divisions but the spreading upheaval, fear and chaos among its own people and its armies, who are growing as desperate and afraid of one another as they are of the invasion. People are resigned and preparing for the worst. They seem to have forgotten what it was that fortified them all these years, if anything more than a basic trust in U.S. military strength. For Americans, it is like watching...
Nowhere was this more apparent than in Nha Trang itself, a city that until last week had remained virtually untouched by the war. Long a balmy retreat for G.I.s and Vietnamese alike, the city of 200,000 was on Route 1, the principal north-south road in South Viet Nam, and the recently established headquarters for all of Military Region II. By last week it had fallen victim to the evils that had already become all too familiar since the Communist offensive began...
...early last week 200,000 refugees, many of them defeated soldiers from farther north, had arrived in Nha Trang, doubling the city's usual population. Everyone had heard of the agony of Danang, not only of its loss to the Communists but of its civilian panic and, worse, the violent behavior of its soldiers. The city made an effort to seal itself off from the war. Newly arriving refugees were barred from entering the town...