LZ refers to where helicopters land to drop soldiers off for missions.
Landing Zone/LZ Quotes in Fallen Angels
The Fallen Angels quotes below are all either spoken by Landing Zone/LZ or refer to Landing Zone/LZ. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 22
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It was Monaco. He was sitting against a tree. He had his head in his hands. His piece was about ten meters in front of him. I wanted to go to him, but Peewee stopped me.
“He ain’t sitting there for nothing,” he said.
I looked around. Nothing. What the hell was wrong with this damn war? You never saw anything. There was never anything until it was on top of your ass, and you were screaming and shooting and too scared to figure out anything.
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Landing Zone/LZ Term Timeline in Fallen Angels
The timeline below shows where the term Landing Zone/LZ appears in Fallen Angels. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3
...patrol duty. They grab their gear, quickly climb into a chopper, and fly to a landing zone , or LZ, in the hills. Perry feels excited and scared. He hopes his knee...
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Chapter 4
...scared—just like he is every other time he leaves the hooch. When they reach the landing zone , the departing squad warns them that all the village females are either under six...
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Chapter 5
...HQ tent. Simpson explains the mission: two of the company’s four platoons will protect the landing zone , while the other two clear “hostiles” so Charlie Company can escape.
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...you listenin’, Please get me out this shit!” The pilot drops the chopper into the landing zone so abruptly that at first Perry thinks they’ve been hit.
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...choppers return to pick up Charlie Company and leave again. Then, they retreat to the landing zone for their own ride back to camp. Back at the hooch, Simpson says Charlie Company...
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Chapter 6
...the middle. They walk for about 20 minutes before turning back. As they approach the landing zone , Monaco opens fire. One Vietcong fighter lurks among the trees. Then, Lobel sees him...
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Chapter 8
The choppers finally arrive. As they approach the landing zone , Perry can see muzzle blasts twinkling in the jungle below. Scotty assures him that...
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Chapter 10
...Simpson throws a grenade down its mouth, and the squad begins to retreat toward the landing zone . But then, Perry hears a single gunshot. Lieutenant Carroll cries out and collapses. The...
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Chapter 13
...shouts for the squad to retreat. They regroup and race through the undergrowth to the landing zone . While they wait on the chopper for an endless half hour, it begins to...
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Chapter 18
There’s too much fire to use the first landing zone , so the choppers drop the soldiers in a secondary, makeshift landing zone. Perry can...
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...After another half hour, Gearhart signals the soldiers to fall back. They return to the landing zone to find a pissed-off Captain Stewart; since the Americans drew no fire on their initial...
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The only place the soldiers can hope to obtain a halfway decent landing zone is in the nearest village, although they’ll have to clear it of Vietcong forces first....
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Chapter 21
...range. Brunner asks for immediate evacuation but learns that the squad must retreat to the landing zone . This will require them to re-cross an exposed rice paddy in the gathering dark,...
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Chapter 22
...side of the ridge. They cross it and are on their way back to the landing zone when Peewee collapses. Perry refuses to abandon his friend, helping him up and supporting his...
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Chapter 23
...squad escaped. He was knocked unconscious and missed the chopper, so he stayed at the landing zone praying like mad that they’d come back for him. He drifted off and woke up...
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