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		First, he backed his people up when they were challenged by the Saigon officialdom, something that was very important and that greatly liberated those who worked for him to do their best work.
		He had his own rules—one of them was to be the first man out of a chopper because in the noise and the confusion of a chopper assault enemy fire was often inaccurate in those first moments.
		That meant from the very first, any reporter working in Vietnam knew that the place was a journalistic minefield—that, and that it was important to have your facts beyond dispute every time you filed.
	www.ap.org /pages/about/pressreleases/pr_042607a.html (5667 words)

	Wikipedia: Vietnam War
		One of the first occurred on July 27, 1964 when 5,000 additional US military advisers were ordered sent to South Vietnam which brought the total number of US forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
		The first draft lottery since World War II in the United States was held on December 1, 1969 and was met with large protests and a great deal of controversy; many people charged that the lotteries were skewed disproportionately toward men with late year birthdays and non-whites.
		Saigon was re-named Ho Chi Minh City in honor of the former president of North Vietnam.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/v/vi/vietnam_war.html (6522 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Vietnam War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Vietnam War was in many ways a direct successor to the French Indochina War, sometimes referred to as the First Indochina War, in which the French fought to maintain control of their colony in Indochina against an independence movement led by Communist Party leader Ho Chi Minh.
		The first American prisoners of war were released on February 11 and all US soldiers were ordered to leave by March 29.
		Saigon was re-named Ho Chi Minh City in honor of the former president of North Vietnam.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/vi/Vietnam_War (3222 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The First Battle of Saigon fought during the Tet Offensive was the coordinated attack by the NVA and VC, by which they attacked South Vietnam's Capital Saigon from all sides.
		Saigon was the main focal point of this offensive, but a total takeover of the capital, by military units, was not intended or feasible.
		The fighting in Saigon also produced one of the Vietnam War's most famous images, photographer Eddie Adams' Pulitzer Prize-winning image of the summary execution of a Viet Cong prisoner on February 1, 1968.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=First_Battle_of_Saigon (1132 words)

	Major Battles of the Vietnam War
		General Weyland won the battle for Saigon at that meeting when he asked that the border offensive be postponed and certain units be returned to their positions in the populated areas.
		At 0730, H-Hour, the sixty-four Hueys and the first four hundred men and the lead companies of 1/506th and 3/187th covered by Cobra gunships, were on their way to the northern A Shau Valley.
		At first, these strikes were in support of the South Vietnamese forces, but later the restrictions against attacking North Vietnam were lifted and the effort changed to that of the interdiction of supply lines.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/VN_Battles.htm (16070 words)

	Coast Guard Battle Streamers
		Battle honors were first depicted by inscribing the names of battles on the organizational color or guidon.
		On 7 February 1890, the use of inscribed battle honors upon the national and regimental colors was discontinued and engraved silver rings, now called silver bands, were authorized.
		Unit award streamers were also first authorized in 1920 when the War Department authorized a blue silk streamer with the name of the action embroidered thereon.
	www.uscg.mil /history/FAQS/BattleStreamers.html (1406 words)

	Farewell Saigon - World - www.theage.com.au
		By mid-April, the end was in sight as the battle for Xuan Loc unfolded 48 kilometres to the north-west of Saigon, which itself was already encircled by as many as 15 PAVN divisions armed with artillery and heat-seeking missiles.
		The monsoon had arrived early and Saigon lay beneath leaden cloud; beyond the airport were long, arched bolts of lightning and the thunder came in small salvos as President Minh prepared to address what was left of his "republic".
		Saigon was now under a 24-hour curfew, but there were people in the streets, and some of them were soldiers from the 18th ARVN Division that had fought well at Xuan Loc, on Highway One.
	www.theage.com.au /news/World/Farewell-Saigon/2005/04/14/1113251731340.html (3937 words)

	The Fall of Saigon 1975: An Eyewitness Report by John Pilger
		By mid-April, the end was in sight as the battle for Xuan Loc unfolded 30 miles to the north-west of Saigon, which itself was already encircled by as many as 15 PAVN divisions armed with artillery and heatseeking missiles.
		Saigon was now under a 24-hour curfew, but there were people in the streets, and some of them were soldiers from the 18th ARVN Division which had fought well at Xuan Loc, on Highway One.
		They were called "ghost soldiers" and they continued to lead the good life in Saigon: in the cafés, on their Hondas, beside the pool at the Cercle Sportif, while the sons of the poor fought and died at Quang Tri, An Loc, and all the other places.
	www.lewrockwell.com /pilger/pilger25.html (4694 words)

	Xuan Loc Battle
		Southwest of Saigon, the reactivated and refitted 22nd ARVN Division sat astride Highway 4, the main route from the Mekong Delta to Saigon.
		First, he gave each of his five corps a principal axis of advance.
		battle for Xuan Loc produced one of the epic battles of any of the Indochina wars, certanily the most heroic ARVN stand in Indochina War III.
	www.generalhieu.com /xuanloc-m.htm (772 words)

	History of Vietnam - Indepth Travel Guide by Vietnam Tours Expert
		Later when he captured Hanoi, his victory was completed and for the first time in two centuries, and Vietnam was reunited with Hue as its new capital city.
		First attack at Danang Harbor in 1847 was failed but after repeatedly attacks Vietnamese finally accepted a French protectorate and become one of its colonies in 1880s.
		By early 1965, the Saigon government was in desperate straits.
	www.vietnam-tours-expert.com /history.htm (2372 words)

	The Fall of Saigon
		His first target was Ban Me Thuot, a city in the Central Highlands and the capital of Darlac province.
		The first of these, Operation Babylift, had been conducted between April 4 and 14, and some 2,600 Vietnamese children were taken to the United States to be adopted.
		Babylift was marred by a tragic accident on the first flight of the operation, April 4, 1975.
	www.afa.org /magazine/april2000/0400saigon.asp (4032 words)

	Battlefield:Vietnam \| History
		This decisive battle convinced the French that they could no longer maintain their Indochinese colonies and Paris quickly sued for peace.
		The result was massive protests on the streets of Saigon that led Buddhist monks to self-immolation.
		Protests erupted on college campuses and in major cities at first, but by 1968 every corner of the country seemed to have felt the war's impact.
	www.pbs.org /battlefieldvietnam/history/index.html (3160 words)

	Vietnam hotels: Saigon Morin hotel: hotels in Hue
		The three-story Saigon Morin, named after the original developer, was built in 1910.
		The Morin was seized during the first onslaught.
		Today, the Morin is owned by the Saigon Tourism company (hence the prefix), and the scars of history have long faded.
	www.haivenu-vietnam.com /hotels-hue-danang-saigon-morin.htm (253 words)

	ipedia.com: Vietnam War Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Vietnam War was in many ways a direct successor to the French Indochina War, sometimes referred to as the First Indochina War, in which the French fought, with the financial and logistical support of the United States, to regain control of their former colony in Indochina.
		Then on August 18, 1965, Operation Starlite began as the first major American ground battle of the war when 5,500 US Marines destroyed a NLF stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai Province.
		The first draft lottery since World War II in the United States was held on December 1, 1969 and was met with large protests and a great deal of controversy; statistical analysis indicated that the methodology of the lotteries unintentionally disadvantaged men with late year birthdays.
	www.ipedia.com /vietnam_war.html (7263 words)

	Battle of Saigon \| TIME
		Tough ARVN marines and paratroopers blasted their way through narrow alleys in running gun battles with the Viet Cong, 700 to 1,000 of whom were believed still mingling with the city's population.
		In six of Saigon's nine districts, 24-hour curfews were still in effect, meaning that those districts harbored at least small bands of guerrillas still operating as units.
		Although General Westmoreland had at first acceded to South Vietnamese wishes to clear the city with ARVN troops, by week's end U.S. help was clearly needed; soldiers of the U.S. 199th Infantry Brigade were helilifted onto the racetrack turf to join the battle.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,837861,00.html (477 words)

	Saigon Rumors
		A handful of Saigonese wags spoke of a Beverly Hills’ plastic surgeon falling in love with her at first sight during a Hollywood party that she attended with Peter Lawford while on holiday in California.
		Not a living soul knew her exact age or accurate parentage, but it was whispered during cocktail parties at villas that she had been a mistress to countless notable men.
		Innumerable colonels' wives asserted that they were positive, without a doubt, one lover had been a French general killed at Dien Bien Phu, supposedly sent into battle and his ultimate death by another one of her paramours, General Henri Navarre, the commander in chief of French forces in Indochina.
	www.vietnamwar.net /SaigonRumors.htm (465 words)

	ZNet \|Anti War \| The fall of Saigon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Among the ribbons of refugees heading away from the fighting were embittered troops of the ARVN - the army of the US-backed Saigon regime - whose president and commander-in-chief, General Thieu, had acknowledged their defeat by fleeing to Taiwan with a fortune in gold.
		The monsoon had arrived early and Saigon now lay beneath leaden cloud; beyond the airport were long, arched bolts of lightning and the thunder came in small salvos as President Minh prepared to address what was left of his "republic".
		We don't know Saigon, we haven't been here for some time." The tanks clattered into Lam Som Square, along Tu Do, up past the cathedral and smashed through the ornate gates of the presidential palace where "Big" Minh and his cabinet were waiting to surrender.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=51&ItemID=7373 (4801 words)

	THE BATTLE OF SAIGON
		The first time our unit returned to Saigon, during the Tet offensive of 1968, it was our task and our accomplishment to wipe out with lightning speed important camouflaged fortifications of the enemy.
		This first night in town, at the officer's club named Phượng Hoàng, 'Phoenix', the General himself hosts a party to entertain the heroic fighters who made their mark in our glorious victory this rainy season.
		Subsequently, he is the first to appear on the dance floor where, together with a gorgeous woman, he performs fancy foot movements to begin the dance party.
	www.bcdlldb.com /battle_of_saigon.htm (3445 words)

	VietnamWar.com:The Vietnam War - Timeline 1965-1968
		At the peak of the battle, NVA soldiers are hit round-the-clock every 90 minutes by groups of three B-52s which drop over 110,000 tons of bombs during the siege, the heaviest bombardment of a small area in the history of warfare.
		January 31-March 7 - In the Battle for Saigon during Tet, 35 NVA and Viet Cong battalions are defeated by 50 battalions of American and Allied troops that had been positioned to protect the city on a hunch by Lt. Gen.
		Nicknamed the "savior of Saigon," Weyand had sensed the coming attack, prepared his troops, and on February 1 launched a decisive counter-attack against the Viet Cong at Tan Son Nhut airport thus protecting nearby MACV and South Vietnamese military headquarters from possible capture.
	www.vietnamwar.com /timeline65-68.htm (8220 words)

	Battle Of Xuan Loc
		Battle Of An Loc is one great story not because many military tacticians, historians, or journalists have praised it for the successful outcome of one ARVN battered Division against four fully equipped VPA Divisions backed with Regiments of tanks and artillery.
		Those embellished terms are just the convenient, demagogic pretexts for the "dirty" foreign politicians or policy makers who used to appeal to the crowds or to promote their party agendas.
		The battle which followed was unique in many respects for the Vietnam War, involving units of divisional size, devastatingly effective VNAF airpower and sophisticated US-made BLU-82 Daisy Cutter Bomb Live Unit-82s.
	www.vnafmamn.com /xuanloc_battle.html (2196 words)

	New SaiGon -- San Jose, California
		Not really, because the first day of Spring for New Saigon and San Jose's Vietnamese (and Chinese and Koreans) this year was Jan. 29.
		Nhieu was a general in the South Vietnamese army and the last mayor of Saigon, a post he held from 1968 until his escape on one of the last flights from the U.S. Embassy in 1975.
		The residual brutality against the Vietnamese who supported the Americans and the Saigon regime may explain why the Vietnamese, who never left en masse during centuries of occupation by the Chinese, French and Japanese, today are pouring out of their homeland by the thousands.
	newsaigonsanjose.blogspot.com (12789 words)

	Amazon.com: The BATTLE FOR SAIGON: Books: Nolan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I was a member of the first platoon, Bravo company, 2/47th Infantry of the 9th Infantry Division.
		I participated in the battle of Widow's Village under the command of Lt. Jezik.
		Nolan's account of that battle is fairly accurate and as they say, "on the money." It makes me proud that we are finally recognized even if it is close to 30 years.
	www.amazon.com /BATTLE-SAIGON-Nolan/dp/0671522876 (1298 words)

	The Ruth Group » Battle of Algiers, Saigon, Bagdhad, Gaza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The French officers seem to be kinder than their recent American counterparts — they offer the victim coffee and a kind of comfort, before dressing him in French cammies and forcing him to go with them to the location of the FLN leader he had just revealed.
		These are the men who wrote the first book on modern counter insurgency.
		Not only do people resist in their thousands, at the risk of their own lives, and that of their children, domination by others, it also seems that the ten thousand year old instinctual human priority of sympathy to those physically nearest is changing.
	www.ruthgroup.org /2006/11/04/battle-of-algiers-saigon-bagdhad-gaza (1357 words)

	The Beast Was Out There (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ensuing clash quickly escalated into a full-scale battle that saw the VC gaining fire superiority over the Americans, attacking their attackers with skill and ferocity, inflicting 134 casualties—including 57 killed—by the time the fighting had ended.
		An experienced, combat-tested unit, the 2-28 was nevertheless badly mauled by an enemy it had actively pursued and with whom it had aggressively initiated battle, in the fullest confidence that it would prevail.
		In what is both an historical narrative and a personal memoir, the author reconstructs the chain of events leading up to the violent encounter with the VC regiment, and describes in gripping detail the battle’s tragic and disastrous unfolding.
	www.rrmtf.org /firstdivision/beast_description.htm (295 words)

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		1887 - First school in Albanian language opens in the city of Korca, Albania.
		1912 - Roald Amundsen first announces to the world that his expedition has reached the South Pole, though they had arrived on December 14, 1911.
		Acuff-Rose Music that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
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	Battlefield:Vietnam \| Timeline
		In Operation Chopper, helicopters flown by U.S. Army pilots ferry 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers to sweep a NLF stronghold near Saigon.
		At the hamlet of Ap Bac, the Vietcong 514th Battalion and local guerrilla forces ambush the South Vietnamese Army's 7th division.
		For the first time, the Vietcong stand their ground against American machinery and South Vietnamese soldiers.
	www.pbs.org /battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index.html (539 words)

	Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) Journal: The City so popular, they ...
		Apart from the green uniforms of the People's Army and the red flags with yellow stars visible everywhere in the airport, reminding you that you were in a Communist controlled country, we could have been in Hong Kong or Thailand.
		First off all, cars are driven on the right, which is the French influence, and secondly, as in Cambodia, motor cycle riders don't need a licence or to take lessons.
		These were first built by the Viet Minh in their battle against the French but were greatly extended by the Viet Cong in the confrontations with the Americans and South Vietnamese.
	realtravel.com /ho_chi_minh_city_saigon-journals-j3582196.html (1243 words)

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		The Battle of the Bulge was not a turning point at all.
		The district of Mogadishu the battle took place in was called the Black Sea district.
		The Luftwaffe had one opportunity, mid battle of Britain to destroy the RAF, but they didnt and the RAF managed to get it back together quick sharp, that decision was down to Hitlers order to stop attacking the RAF bases and concetrate on the cities.
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