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Digital Object Identifier
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363-07274
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Title
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Big Cong HQ Captured After Foe Has Fled
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Description
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Article about the capture of a Việt Cộng guerrilla base in Hố Bò Woods, for the New York Herald Tribune
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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Big Cong HQ
Captured After
Foe Has Fled
By Beverley Deepe
A Special Correspondent
HO BO WOODE,
South Viet Nam.
American infantrymen yes-
terday aclard-without firing
, shot-a vacant Viet Cong
regimental-sized headquarters
complex during one of the
largest operations yet singed
near Balgan.
In the Jungled Viet Cong
base camp situated 40 miles
northwest of Saigon, elements
of the United States Army.
1st Infantry Division found
Chinese Communias ags,
8,000 rounds of Chinese-
manufactured ammunition,
hospital, two dining halls
equipped with fragile china-
ware-bicycles and clothes.
On the wall of the camp,
a Viet Cong cadre had
marked
off the days of a calenda
tp until yesterday.
Roughly 10,000 American,
Australian and South Viet
namese infantrymen, armored
squadrons and other support
troops launched Operation
Mast Monday when 48
helicopters dropped them
into fringes of the 100-square-
Jungled stronghold
known as Ho Bo Woods.
The "invading" troops met
de realatance except for
naht-time harassment of de-
fensive perimeters, mines and
per fire. The Viet Cong
had vanished.
The seatlered houses-four
eats ago part of the Viet
names government's famed
strategle hamlet program
were empty. Only an occa
sional water buffalo was spot-
ted
The area is considered to be
a strategically important cor-
ridor between two other Vie
Cong strongholds-D Zone on
the east and C Zone. border-
ing Cambodia, on the west.
The three zones have been hit
systematically by B-32 bomb-
ers. Yesterday's march through
Ho Bo Woods showed a num-
ber of gaping craters made by
radar-controlled air strikes.
Masst American fire power
vallable each, night to
protect the front-line post-
tions on such an offensive
Helleopters with
mission
archlights scan the ground.
Artillery in the rear fires
throughout the night Into
Red territory just beyond the
defensive positions and trans-
port
alreraft sporadically
drop 30-second flares. Auto-
mate trip flares are also
placed outside American de
fensive lines to ereate an in-
stant warning system against
any Viet Cong penetration.
Still, however, American
armored squadrons sustained
Jong-range Viet Cong mortar
fire and receless rifle fire
during the first night.
mechanical means, we'll a
"But even with all these
ways be one or two days
behind the Viet Cong." o
American affeer explained.
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Date
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1966, Feb. 23
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Guerrilla warfare; Counterinsurgency; United States. Army; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Military bases; Enemy property
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Location
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Hố Bò Woods, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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11.09170; 106.4300
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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
