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Digital Object Identifier
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363-04797
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Title
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Reds Capture U.S. Pilot; Cong Ambush
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Description
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Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about the claims by Communist forces that an American pilot had been captured and that allied forces illegally attacked Cambodia. Communist forces had used the attack on Cambodia as a reason for an ambush of Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces by the Việt Cộng, page unknown
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Sunday, October 17, 1965
Reds Capture
U. S. Pilot:
Cong Ambush
By Beverly Deepe
From Cable Dispatches
SAIGON.
North Viet Nam shot down
an American plane yesterday
and captured the pilot, the
Communist New China news
agency claimed.
The dispatch, monitored in
Tokyo, did not give the pilot's
name, nor did it identify, the
type of aircraft, but said he
was captured in Quang Ninh
province.
North Viet Nam has threat-
ened to try captured American
fliers as "war criminals," and
implictly threatened execu-
tions.
But so far, only the Com-
munist Viet Cong guerrillas in
South Viet Nam are known to
have executed American pris-
oners of war, ostensibly in re-
taliation for the execution by
the South Vietnamese author-
ities of Viet Cong prisoners.
They have executed three.
In South Viet Nam, men of
the U. S. 1st Cavalry (Air-
mobile) Division described
how they saved a helicopter
downed with its four-man
crew in Communist territory
on Friday.
When the helicopter was
downed by Viet Cong fire, two
helicopters sped to the scene.
One, a heavily armed craft,
fought off the guerrillas while
the other, a big salvage craft,
lifted the downed helicopter
to safety.
AMBUSH
Seven guerrillas were be-
lieved killed and four wounded
in the exchange, a spokesman
said. No American casualties
were reported.
neighboring
From
bodia yesterday came a charge
that
Cam-
five "American-South
Vietnamese" skyraider fight-
er-bombers attacked a Cam-
bodian border village on Fri-
day, killing four villagers and
wounding 10.
Cambodia's official radio
charged the planes inflicted
heavy damage on the Ba Thou
village in Svay Rieng province.
Earlier yesterday Cambodia
had protested against an al-
leged flight 18 miles into its
territory on Thursday by two
South Vietnamese helicopters.
In the ground war yester-
day, the Viet Cong guerillas
ambushed and almost wiped
out a 100-man South Viet-
namese patrol with mortar,
machine gun and small arms
fire. The daylight attack oc-
cured near the Cambodian
border 120 miles southwest of
Saigon.
A U. S. spokesman admitted
the government losses were
"heavy." It was not reported
whether the dead also in-
cluded U. S. advisers. Viet
Cong losses were not known.
U. S. B-52 bombers took off
from Guam to raid a sus-
pected Viet Cong storage area
in the coastal province of
Quang Ngai, 330 miles north-
east of Saigon.
In the Mekong Delta, a
Government unit was said to
have ambushed about 100
guerrillas, killed 28, and cap-
tured three. The ambush, in a
Communist stronghold 155
miles southwest of Saigon,
was the sixth major clash in
the Mekong Delta in 48 hours.
A U. S. spokesman said the
Government troops had wait-
ed patiently in hiding until
dawn when the Viet Cong ap-
peared at the edge of U Minh
forest, a vast guerrilla sanc-
tuary never before penetrated
by Saigon forces. The action
was so swift that not one
South Vietnamese soldier was
wounded.
a
In another clash yesterday
in Vinh Binh Province, about
80 miles south of the capital,
ran
provincial company
into a large Communist force.
The Communists abandoned
bodies and arms. Twenty
dead guerrillas were counted.
In Saigon, the Communists
began what they proclaimed
would be a "month of strug-
gle"-meaning terrorism-by
tossing a grenade over the
wall of a villa occupied by
Americans. No one was hurt.
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Date
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1965, Oct. 17
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Aerial operations; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States. Air Force; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Campaigns--Cambodia; Vietnam (Republic). Quân lực
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Container
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B4, F6
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Format
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newspaper clippings
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
