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Digital Object Identifier
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363-07273
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Title
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Yanks Open-Road Policy in Cong Areas
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Description
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Article about U.S. anti-guerrilla warfare operations from the Phước Vĩnh Base Camp, for the New York Herald Tribune
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Yanks' Open-Road Policy in Cong Areas
By Beverley Deepe
A Special Cofrespondent
THUỐC VINH.
Bouth Viet Nam
Totally without fantare,
nearly 4006 troops of the
Dalted States 1st Infantry Di
vision have been operating out
of this town in D-sone, 35 miles
northeast of Salgon on what
could become pattern for
future allled operations
For in addition to killing
Viet Cong and blasting their
base camps, Operation Rolling
Bone will hopefully grab back
an arterial highway used by
the enemy without hindrance
for the past nine years
By the time the "Big Red
One Infantry Division has
finished Route 22 will have
been secured. repaired and
widened to allow two lanes
of heavy trucks to pass, if all
goes well.
Bweating in 95 degree heat
taet wires
and Jung-choking red dust, who have been under Viet ditches to winkle out con-
American Army Engineers Cong control for years.
plan to roll their bulldozers
through 29 miles of this Vet
Cong redoubt by the end of
the month.
The big battles monopolize
the headlines Bat the
smaller operations like Roll-
ing Bere are just as much
part of the American mill
tary buildup and in the end
may prove more decisive i
villagers
reaching isolated
Reliable military sources
stressed that in the coming
montis more and more al
lied offensives will be almed
at opening up Bouth Viet
Nam's ambush-prone high
way and railroad networks,
Bull, with all the mechan-
seal might, American troops
are suffering an estimated
thirty per cent of their casu-
alles in this ares by mines
Though few Viet Cong have
been killed in the area, their
food stores, hospitals, tunnels
and fortifications have been
To combat the inevitable
Vies Cons mines, detonated
for the most part electrically destroyed. "
by a hidden sentry, Ameri- Operation Rolling Stone be-
can troops are using ma-san Feb. 10 when two infantry
chines which plow roadside brigades moved from Phuoe
Vinh on the east and Ben Cat
on the weat-with 20 miles of
Viet Cong controlled road
between them to link up the
two Vietnamese government
held towns, which also serve
as the home of two American
Infantry brigades.
with Vietnamese elvie action
units-hape to convert sonte
of the fence-sitting villagers
living along the highway to
side with the goverment
One American unit found
a photograph of Henry Cabot
Lodge pasted to a e-ration
By repairing and widening box. Under it were two hand
the road, American troops can grenades that would explode
move logistical supplies, tanks once the photo was moved
and trucks down 11. By exten- But the American troops have
alve use of psychological war- learned since their Septem-
fare. and roving medical ber arrival to remove such
teams, the American troopstems at long-distance.
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Date
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1966, Feb. 21
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Tactics; Guerrilla warfare; Counterinsurgency; United States. Army; Military roads; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam
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Location
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Phước Vĩnh Base Camp, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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11.2980; 106.7952
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Container
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B186
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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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Collector
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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
