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A devastating fire at a cafe and karaoke bar in Hanoi has left 11 people dead and two others injured, Vietnamese authorities confirmed on Thursday.. The blaze broke out on the ground floor of the ...
Witnesses stated that the fire had started in the apartment building's garage, which was filled with motorbikes at the time the fire began. [ 14 ] [ 3 ] On 19 September, the Hanoi Police Department announced the results of the investigation into the fire's cause, saying that the fire had started at the southern wall of the building, from a ...
[10]: 53 At midday PAVN tanks attempted to force the road bridge but 6 tanks were destroyed by fire from the ARVN 20th Tank's M48s. [10]: 55 At approximately 1 pm Captain John Ripley, an adviser to the Vietnamese Marines, swung under the road bridge and spent 3 hours installing demolition charges to destroy the bridge. The bridge was blown up ...
As VC fire increased in intensity, the soldiers of Company D picked up the distinctive sound of a U.S.-made M-60 machine-gun firing from the southern flank. Allen assumed that Company A was approaching his perimeter, so he ordered them to cease-fire because he feared his rifle companies were firing on each other.
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As 600 South Vietnamese Marine Corps' 3rd Battalion guarded the south end of the bridge over the Dong Ha River, and assisted from the nearby road by Army Major James E. Smock who fed him boxes of explosives and under intense unrelenting enemy fire, Ripley dangled for an estimated three hours under the bridge in order to attach 500 pounds of the ...
A large PAVN force, including an artillery spotter team was observed in the hamlet of Truc Kinh 3 km northeast of Dai Do and airstrikes were directed on them resulting in a decline in the effectiveness of PAVN artillery fire. Company F at Dong Xuan attempted to move south to support Company G but was stopped by PAVN fire and returned to Dong Xuan.
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