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VIETNAM WAR

Chapter One THE BUILD UP IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH

T he command, officers and men of the National Liberation Front learned much from their defeat in the Ia Drang and other combats of the same period, and thereafter opted to avoid fighting the type of confrontational ground war of attrition favored by the U.S. forces which played to the strengths of their greater weight of fire, tactical air mobility, and air support at all levels by aircraft ranging in size from the Douglas A-1 Skyraider, with its one

Words to Understand Infantry: Trained soldiers who fight on foot. NLF: National Liberation Front For South Vietnam. “Rolling Thunder”: A strategic bombing campaign during the Vietnam War.

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