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363-07662 to 363-07667
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Title
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Article about Operation Rolling Stone
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Description
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Keever's title: "In new pattern: 'GIs open rounds into Viet Cong territory'", article about the US First Infantry Division in Operation Rolling Stone, 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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(Morgan Gandy)
PHUOC VINH REPEAT PHUOC VINH, SOUTH VIETNAM, 1820 (UPIS)--
Totally without fanfare, troops of the Unistates First Infantry
Division have been sweeping out of this frontier town in
Karmine DDD-Zone on what could become aye pattern for future
allied operations.
For in addition to killing Viet Cong and blasting
their base camps, Operation Rolling Stone will grab back
arterial highway used by the enemy without hindrance
an
for the past nine years.
By the time the "Big Red One" Infantry Division has finished,
Route 22 repeat Twenty Two will have been secured,
repaired and
widened to allow two lanes of heavy trucks to pass.
Sweating in ninety five degree heat and lungohoking red dust,
american army engineers will have rolled their tank-dozers through
ttwenty miles of this Viet Cong redoubt by the end of the month.
(More-Malloy--BD)
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first add morgan gandy--saigon
x x x of the month x XX
smaller
The big battles monopolize the daily headlines. But the
operations like Rolling Stone are just as much aye part
of the American military buildup and in the end may prove more
decisive in reaching
isolated villagers who have been
under Viet Cong control for years.
Reliable military sources
stressed today that in the coming
months more a nd more allied offen offensives will be aimed at
opening up South Vietnam's ambush-prone highway and railroad
networks.
To combat the inevitable Viet Cong mines,
for the most part electrically
by aye hidden sentry,
detonated both bi
American
troops are using aye "rooter", which literally plows the roadside
ditches three feet underground to winkle out the mim contact wires.
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second add-morgan gandy--saigon
X X X contact wires :
ALL
Still, with the mechanical might, American troops are suffering
dim an estimated thirty percent of their casualties in this area
by "mines from an enemy which is never seen--which makes this war
so frustrating,
according to one officer.
Though few Viet Cong have been killed in the area, thirty five
miles northeast of Saigon, their food stores, hospitals, tunnels and
fortifications have been destroyed.
Operation Rolling Stone began February tenth whom two infantry
brigades moved from Phuoc Vinh on the east and Ben fam Cat on the ew
west with twenty miles of za Viet Cong controlled road between them--
to link up the two Vietnamese government-held towns, which also
I serve as the home of two American infantry brigados. By rep
repri repairing and widening the road, American troops can move
logistical supplies, tanks and trucks down the road. By extensive
use of psychological warfare and a roving medical teams along
the highway, the American troops--with Vietnamese civic action units--
hope to convert some of the fence-sitting villagers living along
the highway to side with the government.
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third add-morgan gandy-saigon
x x x with the government x x
In sweeping the jungled terrain the American troops discovered:
1. aye Viet Cong hospital-covering with its defensive system
2
aye one square kilometer area--for thirty conve convalescent patients
whose occupational therapy was to make hand-grenades. The tunneled
labyrinth under the hospital-plus four tiers of a concentric
defensive foxholes and fortifications-gave the Viet Cong
sick time to escape as the American troops advanced.
2.
Aye Viet Cong post office with three hundred pounds of
undelivered mail,
stacked in neat piles and loaded into a xx
blue-grey postal bag.
3. Eight Vidt Cong trucks, one of which was helicoptered
out of the jungled. "We're going to paint it infantryman's blue,
put a license plate number 1V. C. One on it, and use it to
haul PPPXXX supplies," one officer explained.
The other seven
ond
trucks were destroyed--more than fourteen boob boobytraps
surrounded each of the trucks.
"There were mines in the trees, ond the
ground, around the truck tires and under the hood, "
one officer
explained. "Everything we touched was boobytrapped."
xx One American unit once found a photograph of Henry
Cabot Lodge pasted to a coo-ration box. Under it were two
But
The
hand grenades that would explode once the photo was moved.
American troops had learned Since their September arriva
remove such items with long-distance wires or lasooes lasooes."
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LASSOES
x x x or lasoves xxx
American troops already have figured out aye few of the
Viet Cong secrets.
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Two shaven sticks lyin oying along the road
means the ± route is clear of mines and body boobytraps. A
broken bre branch hanging straight down along a footpath means
the route is clear; if it's hanging sideways the
boobytrapped.
route is
Phuoc Vinh (pope two thousand)
means
"Eternal
Hp Happiness" in Vietnamese. It is an ironic name for a city
D-Zone
that never was. Under former President Ngo Dinh Diem, this
PHUOC VINH
as aye modell city
was dug out of the jungle, laid out with mauls and
And
flower er gardens in classical French design. Im 1961,
the Viet Cong overran the city, then a provincial headquarters-
During
the first of ma ny to fall under momentary enemy control.
the attack the Viet Cong captured the government province chief,
and threw it into the latrine.
chopped off his head
Today,
a dusty-colored bust of the former province chief dominates the
middle of the little town, over-looking the mauls of dead grass)
* the hundreds of American GI tents and the barbed
Listy,
barricades on the dirty well-laid out boulevards.
wire
Shortly before
the American troops arrival in September the y town was
downgraded from a provincial capital to aye district capital.
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fifth add-morgan gandy--saigon
x x x district capital x x
The American a defensive positions here are laid out
with trenches,
sand-bagged bunkers, and four tiers of giant
bmxbarimmimam balls of barbed wire, E on which the American troops
have placed pebble-filled momxnakan coke cans to rattle when the
fenses are touched.
Utilize
The sophistommm American troops used the best of
their technological means to spot and harass the enemy-batteries
of artillery, including the gigantic onehundred seventy mili
millimeter guns with an accurate firing range of thirty miles,
electronically calibrated counter-montering devices, and most
important, the portable ground radar known as "Pipsy" repeat
"Pipsy."
"This little Pipsy is great," one American officer explained.
"It will show you that five figures are moving towards you on a certain
angle and at a given speed."
But, the American concede it isn't foolproof.
"One night,
were in contact with Viet Cong platoon
when the Pipsy showed alot of activity further away," one officer
explained. "We called in all our artillery to hit that area at the
same time. The next morning we had twohundred dead by bodycount--
dead monkeys.
Monkey Massacre."
We always razz the artillerymon about their
(Endit-Malloy-ED)
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Date
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1966, Feb. 18
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; United States. Army; Soldiers; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 1st; Tactics
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Location
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Phước Vĩnh, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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17.733; 106.367
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B188, F3
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Format
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dispatches
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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
