John Beard ©Stars and Stripes
Dak Seang, South Vietnam, April 18, 1970: Children peer out from behind ammunition in a bunker at Dak Seang during a break in the communist siege that began April 1. Stripes' John Beard and AP's Hugh Van Es were the first correspondents to get through to the beleaguered camp, and Beard reported that "spirits run high" among the hundreds of Montagnard civilians, South Vietnamese soldiers and U.S. Special Forces troops. "The amount of incoming rockets, mortars and recoilless rifle fire is down from an earlier rate of 100 to 150 a day to around 25 per day, although the Red gunners seem much more selective of targets," said Beard, noting that "almost all above-ground installations have been destroyed."

RELATED MATERIAL
¶ Click here for many more of John Beard's photos from besieged Dak Seang.
¶ Click here to read Beard's story about life at Dak Seang in April, 1970
¶ Click on date for more Stripes stories about the siege:
      April 9: Allies kill 409 near besieged Dak Seang
      April 10: NVA forced to ease siege on Dak Seang
      April 11: Dak Seang: 'Scar' that fights back
      April 12: Dak Seang view: Kaleidoscope of a Siege
      April 12: C7s braving heavy fire to aid Dak Seang
      April 22: Viets kill 23 Reds near Dak Seang camp

October, 2004
October 3, 2004: Break time for students at a seminary in Spain, 1961
October 2, 2004: Massive World War II anti-aircraft bunker in Berlin, 1947
October 1, 2004: Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a tourist in Germany, 1962

September, 2004
September 30, 2004: Jose Greco and his Spanish dance troupe in Germany, 1970
September 29, 2004: Maurice Chevalier in Paris, 1965
September 28, 2004: Bandleader Harry James plays the trumpet at Frankfurt, 1970
September 27, 2004: Japanese rally in support of President Nixon, 1974
September 26, 2004: Bishop Fulton J. Sheen in Germany, 1951
September 25, 2004: William Casey, future CIA director, gets an honorary degree in Korea, 1975
September 24, 2004: Getting the news out during the U.S. intervention in Lebanon, 1958
September 23, 2004: Movie producer and director Cecil B. DeMille in Frankfurt, 1957
September 22, 2004: Jack Paar broadcasts from Berlin after construction of the Wall, 1961
September 21, 2004: Secretary of State Dean Rusk in Tokyo, 1963
September 20, 2004: Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, during filming of The Road to Hong Kong, 1961
September 19, 2004: Fire destroys the Darmstadt Military Community's firehouse, 1947
September 18, 2004: Soldiers from the 196th Light Infantry Brigade arrive in Vietnam, 1966
September 17, 2004: Demonstration of a YC-14 transport plane prototype, 1977
September 16, 2004: Crow Indians visit Germany to promote tourism in Montana and Wyoming, 1972
September 15, 2004: Generals McAuliffe and Westmoreland greet Rep. Gerald Ford, 1955
September 14, 2004: Piano prodigy Van Cliburn arrives in Heidelberg, 1958
September 13, 2004: Artillerymen in Germany pose with a 280mm "atomic cannon," 1956
September 12, 2004: Ann Sheridan and Cary Grant, honorary Heidelberg post fire chiefs, 1948
September 11, 2004: Congressman Adam Clayton Powell arrives in Germany, 1953
September 10, 2004: Elizabeth Taylor visits Japan to promote AIDS research, 1987
September 9, 2004: Dallas Cowboys lineman Bob Lilly as a military photographer, 1967
September 8, 2004: Actor Sean Flynn, Errol's son, on the set of The Son of Captain Blood, 1961
September 7, 2004: Manufacturing the Medal of Honor, 1968
September 6, 2004: The Beatles onstage at Tokyo's Budokan hall, 1966
September 5, 2004: Rev. Billy Graham at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam, 1968
September 4, 2004: Accident on a dangerous stretch of the German autobahn, 1953
September 3, 2004: Lt. Cmdr. John S. McCain III returns after 5½ years as a POW, 1973
September 2, 2004: Mother Theresa speaks in Tokyo, 1981
September 1, 2004: Life in West Berlin during the Soviet blockade, 1948

August, 2004
August 31, 2004: Last of a vanishing breed, a lighter of gas street lamps in Munich, 1961
August 30, 2004: Civilians flee fighting at Bung Cau, South Vietnam, 1972
August 29, 2004: Consumer advocate Ralph Nader in Tokyo, 1971
August 28, 2004: Former vice president Richard Nixon and old friend Anna Chennault, 1965
August 27, 2004: Director John Huston on the set of The Bible in Italy, 1964
August 26, 2004: NBA star David Thompson conducts a basketball camp in Japan, 1983
August 25, 2004: Baseball star Carl Yastrzemski in Tokyo, 1973
August 24, 2004: Dadaist painter and photographer Man Ray at his Paris studio, 1965
August 23, 2004: Actress Jayne Mansfield visits the troops in Germany, 1957
August 22, 2004: Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller stops in Tokyo, 1975
August 21, 2004: Maj. Roger Donlon, the Vietnam war's first Medal of Honor recipient, 1967
August 20, 2004: An OV-10 Bronco in action over South Vietnam, 1968
August 19, 2004: U.S. Olympic basketball coach Hank Iba protests the loss to the Soviets, 1972
August 18, 2004: Benny Goodman, "The King of Swing," in Tokyo, 1964
August 17, 2004: College football coaching legend Eddie Robinson of Grambling State, 1977
August 16, 2004: President Eisenhower rides to the White House on Inauguration Day, 1953
August 15, 2004: Gossip columnist Walter Winchell, 1953
August 14, 2004: Taiwan schoolchildren celebrate Chiang Kai-shek's re-election, 1972
August 13, 2004: NFL star and Vietnam veteran Rocky Bleier with troops in Korea, 1975 (With stories)
August 12, 2004: A 50-foot King Kong is unveiled for a movie promotion in Japan, 1986 (With story)
August 11, 2004: Comedian Joey Bishop in Vietnam, 1968 (With story)
August 10, 2004: Astronaut John Glenn arrives in Tokyo, 1963 (With stories)
August 9, 2004: Ann-Margret at Torrejon Air Base, Spain, 1964 (With story and additional photos)
August 8, 2004: Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler in Tokyo, 1965 (With story)
August 7, 2004: The Mills Brothers onstage in South Korea, 1963
August 6, 2004: Hiroshima Peace Park, 1977 (With additional photos)
August 5, 2004: Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn of Thailand in South Korea, 1967 (With story)
August 4, 2004: U.S. Army Europe boxing tournament action, 1957 (With additional photos)
August 3, 2004: Jockey Mary Bacon, on the track in Tokyo, 1978 (With story)
August 2, 2004: Actress Gina Lollobrigida promotes her book of photographs, 1974 (With story)
August 1, 2004: Expert bottle-balancer from the USS Midway, 1977 (With story)

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