Viet Riots Siphoned Off Base Guards

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363-04762

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Viet Riots Siphoned Off Base Guards

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Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about how the political situation in South Vietnam led to the shelling of the Tan Son Nhut Air Base, page 4

Date

1966, Apr. 14

Subject

Vietnam (Republic)--Politics and government; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--Vietnam (Republic); Air bases; Bombing, aerial; Bombardment

Location

Saigon, South Vietnam

Coordinates

10.8231; 106.6311

Container

B4, F6

Format

newspaper clippings

Collection Number

MS 363

Collection Title

Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers

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Keever, Beverly Deepe

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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

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English

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· Viet Riots Siphoned Off Base Guards
By

They Placed their base
plates and mortar tubes near
th e village of Ba Queo, a peasant villll,ge of hu ts and a small
market, surrounded by fruit
groves and bushes.
Eight miles west of the village, towards Cambodia, · lies
Due H.oa, the Viet Cong headquarters fo r units specializing
in sabotage, demolition and
small unit.attacks . Due -Hoa is
on the fringe of the Communist strongh old called the
Plain of Reeds, a marshy
wasteland that was under
Communist control even during the French Indochina
war .
Security offi cfals estimated
t hat in an 8-hour march, the
Viet Cong could move divisions 9f troops from Cambodia to Saigon .
The specialized unit -i n Due
Hoa is commanded by a
humpbacked man in his 40s,

Beverly Deepe

A Special Correspondent

SAIGON.
Security officials here long
have believed Communist
, ,'6,rillas coulq shell the
U. S. air base on the outskirts
of Sai:gon, as they did yester- ,
, r>·, m~rning. But the political crisis here made e,a sier
their job-one of ttte worst
aotacks to date on an Allied
ai•· 1Jase.
"Security a round the air
base was relaxed because of
/1<1e political situation," a
h '.~h- ranking South Vietnamese security of,ficer said yesterd'ay. Some of the reimlar
Vietnamese Army units which
normally would have been pa trolling the outer perimeter
o~ the base, he ·said, were confin ed to barracks or assigned
other res,ponsiibil!ties connected with the anti-government -political demonstrations
• and turbulence.
S,Jgon's Tan Son N'hut Air
Base-which is also the
capital's civilian airport and
one of t he busiest iJil the be maintained and patrolled
world-lies three miles north by one Vietnamese airborne
! of the center of the city. The battalion and one Vietnamese
·battalit.,n,
security
hub of · the airport is the Army
control tower, and its- back- sources said.
But since the onset of the
bone is the main jet-length
· run\'(,aY, where business men Buddhist-inspired demonstralBnd in commercia~ airliners tions and the tmbulence deonly seconds after American signed to topple the Saigon
jr t figh ters screech off the government, · the Vietnamese
ether end. The control tower airborne oattalion had not
, :is, knocked out during the been permitted to patrol. In2 ' -minute, multi-million-dol- stead, it was ordered to remain in barracks in case it
lar attack Wednesday.
The tower and main runway was needed to stop rioting,
are secured by barbed wire street fighting and stoning of
fen ces and outposts, and by Americans in Saigon.
The Vietnamese Army batVietnamese and 4merican
talion d·,1ring the crisis had
security fo rces.
The guerrillas, attacking been shifted from airport
with mortars and recoilless security to protecting Vietnarifles, did not penetrate the mese government installations
such as the government radio
inner defense :perimeter.
· Within the inner perimeter station, which pro-Buddhi&t
are based more than 10,000 students attempted to seize
American troops, most of several ·weeks ago.
The elite paratroop .battalthem to give air support to the
war against the Viet , Cong. ion and the regular Army
The American units are re- battalion were replaced with
sponsible for the security of only one battalion of regional
their aircraft and helicopters, forces, which are no,t as well
but their duties do not extend equipped, trained or paid as
beyond the barbed-wire en- the regular units.
A. third defense perimeter
closure.
The second rim of defense- was to be secured by one Viet- '
beyond the barbed · wire-in names.e Army battalion, one
times of political quiet wo\,\ld Ranger battalion and . local'·

popular and regional forces
under the command of the
Tan Binh District, Gia Dinh
Province. Gia Dinh is the
doughnut - shaped
province
surrounding Saigon. The airport lies in this province, not
within Saigon 's city limits.
Because of the unrest fn
Saigon, elements of the Vietnamese Army battalion and
the Ranger batti;tl!on were
brought into Saigo11 to atteriipt to maintain or der.
This lef t a smattering of
local popular and regional
para-military forces, plus
small elements of the regular
battalions to do the patroll!ng
job. A total of 25 square miles
is within the three perimeter
rings.
,
"But you knew we . did not
have enough troops to cover
all that ground all the time ,"
a Vietnamese security officer
said. , "An~ the paramil!tary
units were a ,little lazy in patrolling anyway.''
Between the second and
third perimeters-1, 000 to 5,000 yards from the airport
control tower-the 15 to 30
Viet Cong guerillas brougM 1n
at least two mortars and one
recoilless rifle to bombard the
air base.

1

security sources said. At the
Saigon security headquarters
his photo is posted-a 1,000,000 Piastre ($9 ,000 ) reward
has been put up for his head.
Almost all the small villages
around Saigon have been subjected to· minor terrorism in
recent weeks. Two or three
policemen a night are killed
or kidnaped from these villages. Police checkpoints and
headquarters are regularly attacked--sometimes overrunas the Communists ha.ve
tightene/i their noose around
the ,capital city.
"It would take hundreds of
th'.:msands of troops, shoulder
to shoulder with garden rakes
digging up the whole perimeter aUthe time, to prevent
an attack llke this," an American Air Force officer said.
"The V. C. <Viet Cong) can
put. mortar tubes under any
bush any time and we cannot
even see them."


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