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Haiphong (, ) is the third largest city of Vietnam with population of over two million people. The city's name means "coastal defense" and it is nicknamed the Flamboyant City because of the many flame trees planted throughout it. Haiphong is Northern Vietnam's most important seaport and has many industrial parks invested by multinational corporations. In Vietnam, only Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are larger than Haiphong.

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That would just about fill the time until he had to go to the Haiphong Lily.

I think it would be best for you to have dinner at the Haiphong Lily in any case.

The entrance to the Haiphong Lily was marked by a huge water lily limned in red neon.

Vietnam vet with the plastique girdle had everyone sweating for three hours the day he showed up, demanding Haiphong Hannah be brought to him.

Burner and Haiphong Hannah were getting into the chopper ahead of them.

Don Cooder lugged Haiphong Hannah down the corridor to the control room and dumped her into one of the console seats.

Failing a response, they returned, hitting Haiphong for the first time and railroad yards and other targets in the capital.

Hanoi and Haiphong areas, eliminated long delays in approving targets, the bombing would be far more effective.

The reply seemed to imply that talks might go forward on this basis, but further discussion was angrily cut off by Hanoi when Admiral Sharp launched a major bombing campaign to isolate Hanoi and Haiphong from each other and from their supply routes.

French warships, planes, and artillery had punitively shelled and bombed civilian quarters of Haiphong, killing more than six thousand civilians, fighting had broken out in Hanoi.

Hanoi and Haiphong this week as the Soviet people had over the invasion of Czechoslovakia.

B-52s over Haiphong and Hanoi still lay a year in the future, though contingency plans had come close to execution several times since 1969.

Landing as a brigadier-general at Haiphong, he was about to assume, at Bac-Ninh, his third star, when the Minister of War, examining the brilliant record of this officer who, since 1862, never had ceased his service to his country, called him to take command of one of the infantry divisions of the army of Paris, a place which he had occupied only a few months before the events related in the preceding chapter.

Built towards the end of the Vietnam War, she had first seen service clearing mines off Haiphong harbor.

The mining of Haiphong Harbor, although initiated late in the war, was equally effective in immediately stopping shipping in and out of North Vietnam.