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Conception Junction is the largest community of the Tri-C Area, being 1.5 miles north of Conception, home of Conception Abbey, and one mile west of the village of Clyde. The Platte River lies just west of the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.31 square miles (0.80 km 2), all land. [6]
SEALORDS is an acronym for Southeast Asia Lake, Ocean, River, and Delta Strategy. It was a joint operation between United States and South Vietnamese forces which was conceived by Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., Commander, Naval Forces Vietnam (COMNAVFORV), and it was intended to disrupt North Vietnamese supply lines from Cambodia in and around the Mekong Delta.
Cemetery for ten girls who volunteered for logistical activities, who died in a B-52 raid at Đồng Lộc Junction, a strategic junction along the Ho Chi Minh trail Đồng Lộc Junction ( Vietnamese : ngã ba Đồng Lộc ) was a strategic road T-junction at the beginning of the Ho Chi Minh trail which was extensively bombed by American ...
Aside from indicating that the Nixon administration might be willing to resume full-scale bombing of North Vietnam, the operation did not achieve very impressive results. [4]: 203 The VPAF campaign aimed precisely at countering the U.S. air interdiction campaign to which the President had keyed all his hopes for success, in making North Vietnam give up the fight and negotiate and in giving ...
Conception is about 11 mi (18 km) southeast of Maryville on U.S. Route 136 and approximately 6 miles northeast of Guilford. It is part of the Tri-C Area being 1.5 miles south of Conception Junction and two miles southwest of Clyde. Conception is home to Conception Abbey.
Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon (Vietnamese: Vương cung thánh đường Chính tòa Đức Bà Sài Gòn or Nhà thờ Đức Bà Sài Gòn; French: Basilique-Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Saïgon), officially Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of The Immaculate Conception (Vietnamese: Vương cung thánh đường Chính tòa Đức Mẹ Vô nhiễm Nguyên tội; French: Basilique ...
Con Thien (Vietnamese: Cồn Tiên, meaning the "Hill of Angels") was a military base that started out as a U.S. Army Special Forces camp before transitioning to a United States Marine Corps combat base.
Our Lady of La Vang (Vietnamese: Đức Mẹ La Vang) refers to a reported Marian apparition at a time when Catholics were persecuted and killed in Vietnam.The Shrine of our Lady of La Vang (Basilica of Our Lady of La Vang) is situated in what is today Hải Phú commune in Hải Lăng District of Quảng Trị Province in Central Vietnam.