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363-07655 to 363-07661
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Title
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Article about American infantrymen seizing a Việt Cộng complex
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Description
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Keever's title: "GI's seize 'The [?] of the Viet Cong' headquater", article about American infantrymen seizing a vacant Việt Cộng regimental headquarters complex near Saigon, 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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Transcript
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(Morgan Gandy)
HO BO WOODS, SOUTH VIETNAM, 22200 (UPIS)
American
Infantrymen today seized--without firing aye shot-aye vacant
Viet Cong regimental-sized headquarters complex during one of the
largest operations yet staged near Saigon.
In the jungled Viet Cong base camp, situated only forty
miles northwest of Saigon, elements of the Unistates Army First
Infantry Division found Chinese Communist flags, eight thousand
aye medical hospital,
rounds of Chicom-manufactured ammunition,
two dining halls-equipped with fragile chinaware--bicycles and
clothes.
On one wall of the camp, one Viet Cong cadre had marked
off the days of aye calendar-up until Tuesday's date.
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first add-morgan gandy--saigon
x x x tuesday's date. xII,
Roughly ten thousand American, Aur Australian and South
Vietnamese infantryment armored squadrons and other support troops
launched "Operation Mastiff" on Monday when forty eight "slick"
(unarmed) helicopters dropped them into fringes of the one-hundred
square mile jungled stronghold known as Ho Bo Woods.
The "invading" troops made met little resistance except for
night-time harassment of defensive perimenter perimeters, mines
and sniperfire.
The Viet Cong had vanished.
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second add-morgan gandy-saigon
x x x had vanished x x x.
The scattered houses--four years ago part of the Vietnamese
government's famed strategic hamlet program--were empty. Only an
occasional water buffalo was spotted--and one of them gave chase to
an American trooper. American GGGIII'S g took up night-time defensive
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perimente perimeters by using Viet Cong foxholes;
an American
company command element held lunch and seista in a Viet Cong
observation
platoon Cid post.
"It would be nice to see Charlie just once in awhile,"
one teenage American private moaned.
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third add-morgan gandy--saigon
x x x private moaned I
The Ho Bo Woods-which one American private called "The Vit
Dogpatch of the Viet Cong"-dye parched wilderness of
dry rice fields, xxx wild prairie grass, denseend
sporadically dense jungle, P. Along the hedgerows of pineapple trees.
and dying shrubs, the Viet Cong had constructed four feet deep
trenches,
foxholes.
And
underground logcabim bunkers, innumerable L-shaped
They had even, like ancient cliffdwellers, chipped
foxholes into the sides of the red clay hills.
SET RETo
The American troops
girted some of the bunkers,
village houses and rice fields as they marched through the
area,
leaving behind
ruins.
blazing, and then blackened,
CHARRED
"We usually burn the houses when we go through aye
one American private
ing Viet Cong stronghold area,"
explained. "Charlie can build aye new house."
GGGIII's have dubbed their enemy "Charlie"
the military phonotic ph alphabet for
The American
or "Victory Charlie,"
"V. C."
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x x x for "V. C." I I X.
The Ho Bo Woods is considered to be a strategically important
corridor area between two other infamous Viet Cong strongholds--
DDD-zone on the east and CCC-Zone, bordering Cambodia,
om the
west. All three of the Viet Cong zones have systematically been
hit by BBB-52 SAC raids; today's march through Ho Bo Woods
showed aye number of the gapping craters à created by the
STRIKES@e
radar controlled air-r
"This area is the Viet Cong alleyway to Saigon,"
one
American officer explained today.
"And that's the reason for this
search and destroy operation."
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fifth addmorgan gandy
x x x destroy operation x x x.
This correspondent accompanied for two days aye reconnaissance
platoon of the First Infantry Division, which was lead by
Lieut. Terry Ware, of Lockport, New Yokr. York. His radio
call sign was "New York"; his forty-some man platoon was
Grenadiers."
affectionately referred to as "Terry and His Grectors
today
His unit was a awakened at seven eye ayem six with plans to move
out for of their blocking position at eight thirty ayem. But,
the delay after delay ered followed and the unit began marching
at eleven thirty just as the noonday sun was reaching its zenith.
The troops moved slowly, pear peering carefully into the hedgerows
and bunkers, but barely stopping for lunch.
The ninety-plus degree heat quickly produced aye sweaty
lather on the troops; some wrapped watersoaked hant
had handkerchiefs around their hands to prevent extensive
sunburn; all wore their shirt sleeves down, which compounded the
HEATED
heat. The water im canteens and jugs became so rot that one
American private decided to use it for making hot chocolate.
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sixth add-morgan gandy-saigon
x x x hot chocolate x x =
By four pppmmm, the troops had covered eight kilometers
and then settled down to form aye circular a night-time defensive
perimeter.
MASSIVE
AVAILABLE.
serve American firepower is used each night to protect the
"frontline" positions on such aye an offensive mission into aye
Cong
Viet area. Helicopters with searchlights fluttered argent
OR APPROACH
overhead to scan the rivers and other avent avenues of escape for the
Viet Gong. Tax American artillery in the rear is automatically
calibrated to fire just outside the American defensive positions--
sometimes as close as eight hundred meters. Throughout the nights,
American artillery rounds "sing" overea over the heads of the
American troops and then, with a resounding slam,
pounce into
Viet Cong territory.
RASPOR
American flareships
sporadically
drop fes, thirty-second flares, which brighten the skies
"like someone turned on an electric light," one American private
explained. The American ground units carry with them portable
mortars which can tx be used no trptnot only for securing the
perimeters but also for launching illumination flares
to search out visibly the area. Automatic trip flares are
outer
also placed outside the American defensive lines to create an
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instant warning/against any Viet Cong penetration.
Still, however, American armored squadrons sustained
Long-Range
Viet Cong mortar fire, recoiless rifle i fire during the night.
"But even with all these me mechanical means, we're still
always one or two days behind the Viet Cong," one American officer explair
(EndiT MALLOY - BD)
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Date
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1966, Feb. 22
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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; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam--Headquarters
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Location
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Hố Bò Woods, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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11.0566; 106.5223
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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
