Vietnam War

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Across
  1. 1. Emotional stress suffered by many Vietnam veterans
  2. 3. Demilitarized Zone
  3. 5. Section of Laos that juts into Vietnam
  4. 8. Landing zone
  5. 9. A U.S. attach helicopter
  6. 14. A defoliant the U.S. sprayed on jungle areas to remove enemy hiding places.
  7. 15. Vietnamese Communist guerrillas opposed to the government of South Vietnam
  8. 17. U.S. troops’ slang for kilometers, measuring distance in Vietnam
  9. 19. American pickup from Vietnamese, meaning “Let’s get out of here!”
  10. 20. Killed in Action
Down
  1. 2. Vietnamese civilians who were treated by U.S. military medical personnel
  2. 4. Large U.S. helicopter gunship
  3. 6. Hidden explosive device designed to injure the enemy
  4. 7. Term used by American troops to refer to the U.S.
  5. 10. Ho Chi Minh
  6. 11. White phosphorus artillery shell designed to burn the skin
  7. 12. Missing in action
  8. 13. Sharpened spear hidden underground designed to impale unwary U.S. and South Vietnamese troops
  9. 16. Female North Vietnamese radio announcer whose broadcast whose broadcasts were designed to erode morale of U.S. troops
  10. 18. Missing in Action