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... Army . One could only speculate that the PRG rationale was that even if these defeated troops did arrive in the capital before the Liberation Army , the effect would be only to demor- alize further the dispirited ARVN units in Saigon ...
... Army . One could only speculate that the PRG rationale was that even if these defeated troops did arrive in the capital before the Liberation Army , the effect would be only to demor- alize further the dispirited ARVN units in Saigon ...
Page 238
... Army , some Phan Rang residents had begun to question the stability of their native son's administration in Saigon . When I had last visited the town three months earlier , I was told of an enormous rock formation that had for centuries ...
... Army , some Phan Rang residents had begun to question the stability of their native son's administration in Saigon . When I had last visited the town three months earlier , I was told of an enormous rock formation that had for centuries ...
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... Army pilots . They had taken off from an airfield not far north of us and surprise - attacked Saigon's main airfield , leaving many Saigon planes destroyed . The mission had apparently been so secret that not even the antiaircraft units ...
... Army pilots . They had taken off from an airfield not far north of us and surprise - attacked Saigon's main airfield , leaving many Saigon planes destroyed . The mission had apparently been so secret that not even the antiaircraft units ...
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