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Da Nang

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Da Nang

Port city (formerly Tourane) of southern Vietnam, centrally placed on the South China Sea, 80 km/50 mi southeast of Hué; population (1995 est) 416,000. Following the reunion of North and South Vietnam, the major part of the population was dispersed in 1976 to rural areas. Textiles are an important local industry.

A major US military base during the Vietnam War, it is now used by the USSR.
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The 2005 Las Vegas parade was organized by retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Mike Jackson and former journalist Tara Dixon-Engel, who together wrote a book, ``Naked in Da Nang,'' about Jackson's experience as a forward air controller in Vietnam.
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They applied tourniquets to Roy's legs and used flares to signal a helicopter which soon had the point man and Roy on the way to the hospital at Da Nang.
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The squadron deployed to Vietnam in 1966 and operated from Da Nang.
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