Rice fields

Usage examples of paddies.

So, when we marched into the rice paddies on that damp March afternoon, we carried, along with our packs and rifles, the implicit convictions that the Viet Cong would be quickly beaten and that we were doing something altogether noble and good.

For weeks we had to live like primitive men on remote outposts rimmed by alien seas of rice paddies and rain forests.

I learned the murderous trade at Quantico, Virginia, practiced it in the rice paddies and jungles around Danang, and then taught it to others at Camp Geiger, a training base in North Carolina.

Hill 327, a geological freak rising abruptly from the rice paddies west of the airbase.

Peterson told us that the swath of rice paddies and villages stretching southward had been a Communist stronghold for years and was considered the most likely avenue of approach for a Viet Cong attack.

Groves of bamboo and coconut palm rose out of rice paddies like islands from a jade-colored sea.

Looking into the gloom beyond the wire, I saw nothing dangerous, only the empty paddies, gray now instead of green, the inky patches that marked a village or thicket, the scalloped tops of distant tree lines blacker than the black sky.

Happy Valley was as beautiful as it was dangerous, a quilt of emerald rice paddies and dusty fields broken by the vagrant lines of paddy dikes and palm groves where the villages were.

Rice paddies stretched north and south of it, a green and brown mosaic slashed by the mustard-colored ribbon that was the river.

There is nothing to do during the day except sit in the sandbagged foxholes and gaze out at the rice paddies and the mountains beyond.

All I see are the sunstricken paddies, a cone-shaped hill half a mile away, Hill 324, and the jagged wall of the Annamese range.

Although it looked good to eyes that had been staring at nothing but rice paddies and jungle, Danang was no Hong Kong.

I was up in one of the old French blockhouses, looking out at the rice paddies through my binoculars.

Tracers from a machine gun streaked in swift succession across the flat rice paddies beyond the wire.

A column of white flame from burning magnesium fountained up over the airfield just as the one-oh-five shells began bursting in the rice paddies south of the base.