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The Da Nang area, with Cam Ne indicated in red. The Cam Ne incident was a Vietnam War incident in which U.S. Marines burned the huts of South Vietnamese civilians living in the village of Cam Ne in Quảng Nam Province, South Vietnam. The incident became one of the top news stories in the United States about the war. [1]
A map of South Vietnam showing provincial boundaries and names and military zones: I, II, III, and IV Corps. In 1965, the United States rapidly increased its military forces in South Vietnam, prompted by the realization that the South Vietnamese government was losing the Vietnam War as the communist-dominated Viet Cong (VC) gained influence over much of the population in rural areas of the ...
The Meridian Boundary Fire burned 8,586 acres near Grayling, Michigan in 2010.. The U.S. state of Michigan has been the site of several major wildfires.The worst of these were in the lumbering era of the late-1800s when lumbering practices permitted the buildup of large slash piles and altered forest growth patterns which may have contributed to size of the wildfires.
The Reel Inn, one of the Pacific Coast Highway's most iconic landmarks, burned in the fires, according to a GoFundMe page shared by the restaurant's social media and its owners.
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Mt. Pleasent Police Department performed a heroic last-minute rescue last Sunday, pulling a 22-year-old woman from Sterling Heights from a vehicle engulfed in flames.
At 10:10 p.m. PST on January 7, the LAFD reported that a 50 acres (20 ha; 0.078 sq mi; 0.20 km 2) brushfire in northern Sylmar, dubbed the Hurst Fire, had a "rapid rate of spread", and instituted immediate evacuation orders for all areas north of the Foothill Freeway between Roxford Street and the Golden State Freeway–Antelope Valley Freeway ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The man accused of killing a woman sleeping on a New York City subway car by setting her on fire after what prosecutors say was a night of heavy drinking pleaded not guilty to ...
642 – Later sources attribute burning to Caliph Omar during the Muslim conquest of Egypt. 1046 – Fire at St. Mary's Cathedral, Hildesheim, Germany. 1184 – Lightning causes a fire at McDermott's Castle, Ireland, with 120–140 deaths. [1] 1190 – Fire at Clifford's Tower, York, England, killed at least 150 Jews.