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<a class="fancybox" rel="3d4a1c05eb4c0412950416fe0758e862" href="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/054/544/for_gallery_v2/9ec5f11e.jpg"><img src="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/054/544/large_v3/9ec5f11e.jpg" alt="9ec5f11e" /></a></div><div class="content-picture image-v2-number-2" id="image-54545"><a class="fancybox" rel="3d4a1c05eb4c0412950416fe0758e862" href="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/054/545/for_gallery_v2/be01bd0d.jpg"><img src="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/054/545/thumb_v2/be01bd0d.jpg" alt="Be01bd0d" /></a></div></div>New is slow as this is the rainy season in Vietnam<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Former General and Ambassador Maxwell Taylor, now an adviser to President Johnson, told the President: <br /><br />"By the end of 1965, the North Vietnamese offensive will be bloodied and defeated without having achieved major gains." <br /><br />North Vietnam would be forced to change its strategy.<br /><br />----------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Viet Cong destroyed 40 percent of the facility and two million gallons of fuel in storage tanks near Da Nang.50 years ago today, August 05, in sunny Vietnam-land - Where were you?2015-08-05T09:17:54-04:002015-08-05T09:17:54-04:00SCPO David Lockwood866536<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I guess he was wrong!Response by SCPO David Lockwood made Aug 5 at 2015 9:23 AM2015-08-05T09:23:26-04:002015-08-05T09:23:26-04:00CW3 Private RallyPoint Member866537<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I was not around at that time unfortunately, but I appreciate the history lesson <a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="429207" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/429207-spc-jan-allbright-m-sc-r-s">SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.</a>.Response by CW3 Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 5 at 2015 9:23 AM2015-08-05T09:23:28-04:002015-08-05T09:23:28-04:002015-08-05T09:17:54-04:00