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The Typhoon Truce, 1970 - Three Days in Vietnam When Nature Intervened in the War (Hardcover)
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The Typhoon Truce, 1970 - Three Days in Vietnam When Nature Intervened in the War (Hardcover)
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It wasn't rockets or artillery that came through the skies one week
during the war. It was the horrific force of nature that suddenly
put both sides in awe. As an unofficial truce began, questions and
emotions battled inside every air crewman's mind as they faced
masses of Vietnamese civilians outside their protective base
perimeters for the first time. Could we trust them not to shoot?
Could they trust us not to drop them off in a detention camp?
Truces never last, but life changes a bit for all the people
involved while they are happening. Sometimes wars are suspended and
fighting stops for a while. A holiday that both sides recognize
might do it, as happened in the Christmas truce during World War I.
Weather might do it, too, as it did in Vietnam in October 1970. The
"typhoon truce" was just as real, and the war stopped for three
days in northern I Corps--that area bordering the demilitarized
zone separating South Vietnam from the North. The unofficial
"typhoon truce" came because first, Super Typhoon Joan arrived,
devastating all the coastal lowlands in I Corps and further up into
North Vietnam. Then, less than a week later came Super Typhoon
Kate. Kate hit the same area with renewed fury, leaving the entire
countryside under water and the people there faced with both war
and natural disaster at the same time. No one but the Americans,
the foreign warriors fighting throughout the country, had the
resources to help the people who lived in the lowlands, and so they
did. For the men who took their helicopters out into the unending
rain it really made little difference. Perhaps no one would shoot
at them for a while, but the everyday dangers they faced remained,
magnified by the low clouds and poor visibility. The crews got just
as tired, maybe more so, than on normal missions. None of that
really mattered. The aircrews of the 101st Airborne went out to
help anyway, because rescuing people was now their mission. In this
book we see how for a brief period during an otherwise vicious war,
saving life took precedence over bloody conflict.
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