Vietnam vocabulary
Across
- 2. sharpened spear hidden in ground designed to pale unwary US troops
- 3. helicopter landing zone
- 6. increasing the scope and intensity of fighting
- 8. term for young Americans who evaded military service
- 11. your own forces gunfire or bombing
- 13. a US attack helicopter
- 15. the lead and most dangerous position on a patrol
- 16. US troops slap for kilometers and measuring distance
- 17. count US program of counting enemy bodies to measure success
- 18. a defoliant the US sprayed on jungle area to remove enemy’s hiding places
- 19. hidden explosive device to injure the enemy
Down
- 1. while phosphorus artillery shell designed to burn the skin
- 4. derisive US slang term
- 5. Vietnamese peasant home
- 7. anti war lectures in many US colleges
- 9. front line US troops
- 10. Vietnamese civilians who were treated by US military medical personnel
- 12. army nickname for marine and navy airmen
- 14. Ho Chi Minh