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Thorns in the Heart I

"Because they may have planned to destroy air base for cutting
off the communication and helicopter field of U.S Air Borne Army,
who shared a half base with the Vietnamese Air Force."

"If they overthrow the arms force in your base. They will threat
Ban-Me-Thuot downtown. Therefore the small Pyramid Radar
Controller Air Base had got the heavy resting upon it with a thousand
of cannon shell 130 mm. And rockets and b-40. Nguyen. What did
you think of?"

"Father. Think of what?"

"Pyramid Rada controller Air Force base."

"I don't know what happens for it! If they bombed like they were
now, I think of a lot of people die, and everything will destroy on the
ground!" In low and worry voice Nguyen said.

"Do you think your base will be lost?"

"No...! Because we had a strong force in there, and very hard to
predict now."

After half night of bombing by the canon 130 mm, rockets and B-
40 into all the bases, which were around Ban-Me-Thuot city, Viet-
Cong was open directly attacked into the city with four directions by
the tactical of camouflage and dispersion typical methods in the past
to threaten the important roadways between Nha-Trang,Pleiku,
Quang-Duc and Ban-Me-Thuot city.

The defenders of South Vietnam quickly rose back from few
advanced posts. All South soldiers, Civilians Officers, who took a
vacation for greeting New Year in emergency reinforcement at the
military nearest to resist Viet-Cong on their location by radio news.
Because their families were far away from their bases, most of them
were living in the resettlement villages, which were around Ban-Me-
Thuot city on the countryside, such as Kim-Chau, Kim-Phat, Buon-Ho,
Chau-Son, Chi-Lang, Hung-Dao villages...

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