Word: vinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went on, U.S. planes last week launched their heaviest raids so far, sending a record 110 missions over the North in one day, topping it with increased ferocity the next. Orange fireballs rose hundreds of feet in the air above oilstorage depots near Hanoi, Thanh Hoa and Vinh...
...been destroyed. When the roiling smoke cleared, the damage turned out to be closer to 30% . So the Navy went back, and for good measure, Navy and Air Force planes at week's end hit fuel dumps 35 miles north of Hanoi and 43 miles south east of Vinh. En route, Skyhawks and Intruders picked off five North Vietnamese PT boats that were imprudent enough to open fire from their camouflaged moorings as the Navy planes passed over...
...experience or theoretical manual of strategy had prepared him for the quality or magnitude of the U.S. intervention. Though Vo, his family name, means "force," and Giap, his given name, means "armor," the architect of North Viet Nam's army was born near the city of Vinh, the son of a bourgeois landowning family that had fallen into penury. By the time he was 14, he was a member of a clandestine, anti-French sect; four years later the French clapped him in jail for political agitation. It proved a fortuitous incarceration. Behind bars he met Fellow Militant Minh...
...Determination) used American helicopters to trap another Viet Cong battalion. The Reds were part of the crack Soctrang Mobile Force, an outfit whose mobility failed it last week. Caught in a vise by three Ranger battalions, the Communists made their stand in a mangrove swamp near the village of Vinh Chau and suffered 262 dead...
...eleven SAMs were fired-and not one hit its mark. When SAMs tried to strong-arm Navy jets near Haiphong, the "airdales" roared in and struck the site, sending up spiraling smoke from a secondary explosion-probably a missile. Even when two SAMs were fired near Vinh at night, Air Force Phantoms could avoid them. "They looked like Roman candles," said one U.S. pilot, "lighting up the night sky." All told, only 14 of the 243 U.S. planes lost over North Viet Nam have fallen to missiles...