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Vietnam,
DMZ, Khe Sanh Combat Base
(CW
2000)
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the end of 1966 Khe Sanh was turned into a Marine stronghold.
Before it was just a small "Green Berets"-base. One
year later at the end of 1967 USA-intelligence detected big
movements of North Vietnamese soldiers in the surrounding hills
of Khe Sanh. Both general Westmoreland and USA-president Johnson
became convinced that the North Vietnamese were up to a second
Dien Bien Phu. On 21 January 1968 the Siege of Khe Sanh started.
A few months later, on 7 April 1968 it was all over. During the
siege some 500 USA-soldiers and 10,000 North Vietnamese troops
died. Again a few months later the USA just left the base. Today
the Siege of Khe Sanh is considered as an enormous
diversion by the North Vietnamese to draw away attention of the
USA from the urban area's in South Vietnam to prepare for the
infamous Tet-offensive by the Vietcong and NVA. |
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| What's
left in Khe Sanh. |
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The
former landing zone in Khe Sanh. |
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| The
monument to the siege. |
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Socialist Republic of Vietnam
