Word: van
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weeks the marines had been receiving reports that the Viet Cong were preparing the peninsula as a staging area for an attack on the Chu Lai airbase. Marine patrols had been sent out on almost daily probes around the peninsula's five coastal villages, all named Van Tuong, and last week a recon company brought back word that a large new force of V.C. had just arrived from the south. Within 24 hours, "Operation Starlight" had begun...
Walking Bushes. But the worst was still to come. Less than a mile ahead, directly in the path of Hotel Company, lay the Viet Cong regimental headquarters, just outside the Van Tuong village complex. As the Americans most of them under 20−advanced, they ran into an almost endless tangle of V.C. entrenchments: blockhouses, concrete bunkers, fortified hedgerows and tunnels. "They were all over the place," said one squad leader, "but we couldn't see them due to their camouflage. They had full-sized bushes tied to their backs...
...elsewhere, started appearing in widely separated areas of Los Angeles County as far as 10 miles from the original battleground. Threatening bands of Negroes roamed as far west as La Brea Avenue, little more than a mile from hallowed Beverly Hills. Panic seeped through the whole vast city. From Van Nuys to Long Beach, nervous housewives traded rumors of new eruptions. Most citizens stayed home, and the thrumming, garish metropolis seemed unnervingly still. In neighborhoods surrounding the riot center, frightened whites-and some Negroes-were queuing up at sporting-goods stores to buy guns. At an Inglewood store, Owner...
Then a moving van moved back to the Wheelis house, and deputy sheriffs ordered the people sitting in on the porch in front of the entrance to move. They refused and sang "God Bless America." Finally, deputies attempted to climb on the porch, and when resistance continue, the police moved...
...about 5:30 p.m. the moving van driver asked to be allowed to take the vehicle back to the Roxbury warehouse for the evening...