Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Mukati mechiito chakasimba, vavakidzani vanofungidzira kuti mauto eNorth Vietnamese akanga ane pakati pe1.042 ne5.000 akaurawa uye 89 akabatwa muguta nomunharaunda yakapoteredza. Mauto nemauto eU.S. 216 akanga aurayiwa mukati mokurwa uye 1.609 vakakuvadzwa. Mauto eARVN 421 akaurayiwa, mamwe 2.123 akakuvadzwa, uye 31 akanyangarika. Vanhuwo zvavo vanopfuura 5 800 vakanga varasikirwa noupenyu hwavo mukati mehondo yacho uye 116 000 vakasiyiwa vasina misha pavanhu vokutanga ve 140 000. 40-50% yeHuế yakaparadzwa pakupera kwehondo. Mumashure mekudzorerwa kweguta, kuwanikwa kwemakuva mazhinji (ekupedzisira akawanikwa muna 1970) evagari veSouth Vietnamese veHuế kwakamutsa gakava risina kudzikira nekufamba kwenguva. Vakafa vacho vakanga varohwa kana kuti vapfurwa kusvikira vafa kana kuti vakangovigwa vari vapenyu. Tsananguro yepamutemo yeAllied yaive yekuti panguva yavo yekutanga kutora guta, iyo PAVN yakanga yakurumidza kutanga kurongedza zvakarongeka (pasi pekunyepedzera kwekudzidzisazve) uyezve kuuraya vanhu vanosvika zviuru zviviri nemazana masere veSouth Vietnamese vaifungidzirwa kuti vangangopesana nehutongi hwechiKomonisiti. Avo vakaiswa mutorongo vaisanganisira vakuru vakuru vehondo yeSouth Vietnamese, vakuru vakuru vehurumende varipo navakare, vashandi vehurumende vomunzvimbomo, vadzidzisi, mapurisa, uye vakuru vakuru vorudzidziso. Wezvenhau Gunther Lewy akataura kuti gwaro rakatorwa reViet Cong rakataura kuti vaKomonisiti vakanga "vauraya vashandi vehurumende 1.892, mapurisa 38, vadzvinyiriri 790". Mukuru mukuru weNorth Vietnamese, Bùi Tín, gare gare akawedzera kusvibisa mvura nekutaura kuti mauto avo akanga atora zvirokwazvo vasungwa "vanopandukira" kuti vatakure kuenda kuNorth, asi kuti vatungamiriri vemunharaunda, pasi pemamiriro ezvinhu ehondo, vakavauraya nekuda kwekubatsira.General Ngô Quang Trưởng, mutungamiri we1st ARVN Division, akatenda kuti vasungwa vakanga vaurayiwa nemakomonisiti kuitira kuti vadzivirire mazita enhengo dzezvivakwa zveViet Cong zvemuno, izvo zvakafukidzwa. Mamiriro ezvinhu chaiwo anotungamirira kurufu rwaavo...  Mubvunzo: Zvinhu zvipi zvitatu zvakaitika kune vakaurayiwa vacho?
akarohwa kana kuti kupfurwa kusvikira afa kana kuti kungovigwa ari mupenyu