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Qui Nhon

American  
[kwee nyawn] / kwi ˈnjɔn /

noun

  1. a seaport in SE Vietnam, on the South China Sea coast.


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More than 30 years passed before Helen White painted the picture of the officer she saw at the 67th Evacuation Hospital in Qui Nhon, where she served as an orthopedic nurse.

From Seattle Times Nov. 10, 2012

Twice within five days they assembled V.C. and North Vietnamese army regulars in regimental numbers and struck at government units along Route One north of Qui Nhon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only when Viet Cong guerrillas raided U.S. barracks at Pleiku and Qui Nhon last February did the President, with the election safely behind him, begin in earnest to intensify the U.S. role in the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

On Gia Long street in the seamy port of Qui Nhon, South Viet Nam's third-biggest city, two troopers from the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade halted their three-quarter-ton truck.

From Time Magazine Archive

Supplies of fresh water and hot food are unloaded from a helicopter at a mountaintop camp thirty miles northwest of Qui Nhon, 1966.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

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