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363-07738 to 363-07744
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Title
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Article about a defensive blockade of the South Vietnam shoreline
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Description
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Original title: "Blockade", Keever's title: "U.S. and South Vietnamese ships set up 'defensive blockade' of 1200-mile shoreline to counter seaborne infiltration", article about a defensive blockade around the 1200 mile shoreline of South Vietnam, 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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Deepe
Blockade-page 1
January 24, 1966
SAIGON--The United States and South Vietnamese
Navies have established a formidable "defensive blockade"
around the 1200-mile shoreline of South Vietnam in an
attempt to counter Communist infiltration by sea.
Operating under the code name of "Operation
DER
which
Markettine," the outer rim of this "defensive blockade"
includes more than a half dozen of the der radar picket
escort destroyers "filled with very exotic radar",
up until seven months ago had been used as the seaward
extension of the American DEW-Line stretching from the
Aleutian Islands to Midway Island. These ships were
phased out of the Dew-Line responsibilities in June last
year and then transferred to operate off the South
Vietnamese coast.
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Deepe
Blockade--page 2
The size and magnitude of the United States and
South Vietnamese Naval personell and responsibilities
are scheduled to mushroom even more dramatically during
the first six months of 1966. Military movements and
build-ups are classified until they are completed.
Reliable Naval sources believe the "defensive blockade"
has been effective enough to prevent Communist sea
infiltration of men and weapons. Earlier, during
months, these officers were debating whether the Naval
activities were actually effective, or whether the
Communist sea forces had been able to sneak invisibly
through the blockade lines.
PAST
As of how, the elaborate Naval blockade consists
EN
miles from
of an outer ring of seaborne security
the South Vietnamese coast, an inner security ring
COASTAL JUNKS-Made of UARNISHED BASKET MATERIA
of South Vietnamese Navy, United States Navy and Coast
Guard operating near the coast and a 24-hour-a-day airborne
SPH NEPTUNE
patrols of seaplanes which are packed full of highly
sensitive electronic gear for the detection of metallic
hardware, OR Wooden Hull JUNKS.
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DEEPE
blockade--page 3
january 24, 1966
"To date we have found little evidence of infiltration
attempts since Operation Market Time was instituted, Rear Admiral
Norvell G. Ward explained. Operation Market Time was initiated
March 24, 1965. Rear Admiral x Ward "wears two hats"
as chief of
the United States Navy Advisory Group, assisting the Vietnamese
Commander Coastal Surveillance Force, which are
Navy, and as
the American components of enforcing the defensive blockade around
South Vietnam.
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Deepe
blockade-page 4
January 24, 1966
"I don't say there have been no attempts (of
or that we have discovered all
Communist sea infiltration)
"But we are
the attempts," the Rear Admiral continued.
approaching a point where we can say that if they are
attempting it, we should detect it."
The chief American Naval officer in Vietnam said
that in some cases ships of Operation Market Time had
apparently thwarted infiltration attempts.
Early this year, a foreign fishing trawler of
150 tons capacity, approached the South Vietnamese coast.
When the allied ships began "tracking" it,
the trawler
"turned around, went back to sea and disappeared into
Chinese Communist waters," the Naval officier explained.
The trawler flew no foreign flag,
but a Chinese Nationalist
flag was painted on the side of the bridge. Naval authorities
discounted that the flag and ship actually represented
that country.
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deepe
blockade-page 5
"One of our most difficult jobs is to try to separate
fact from fiction," Rear Admiral Ward explained.
"In the past
several months we've been trying to determine the number of Vietnamse
junks at sea. Several years ago 54,000 junks had been license
licensed by the Vietnamese government--but then we
have to guess
at how many additional junks were at sea in a certain day. We
are just beginning to a certain degree to ascertain these facts:
so we can base our operations on these factors. We really don't know
what makes fishermen go to sea on one day and stay in port the next
day. There's a distinct variation in the type of fishing
junks with no apparent reason for it. This is the intangible
thing we're working with. In the next several months we will
NECESSARY
acquire the Statisgi statistics statistical data necessary
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deepe
blockade-page 6
The Rear Admiral explained that the build-up of U. Naval
forces-planned eight months ago-is still evolving.
"It's taking almost a year to get all the resources in
"It will take us several more months
Wind
the area,"
he explained.
havethe
in time. We can't wave that aj magic want and have the forces on
the scene. In some cases,
we didn't have the proper type of
craft for close in-shore patrolling--and they are still on the
production line. This is what has taken time."
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deepe
blockade-page 7
ALUMINUM-Hulled, 82- foot.
Roy U. S. Coast Guard cutters have been placed under
the operational command of the U. S. Navy for saturation sea
patrolling z at the 17th parallel bordering North Vietnam and
BUTE
in the
a of Thailand Rex in an attempt to counter possible
sea infiltration from Gimo Cambodia.
The cutters arrived.
in Vietnam waters last July wearing the standard coat of
white paint, which was quickly changed to steel grey, "because they
could be spotted too easily in the moonlight with their white
color," according to one Naval officer.
The sending of the U. S. Coast Guard to Vietnam brought
who believed that
some protests from American Congressmen,
by their departure would weaken the Coast Guad capabilities
within the United States.
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Date
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1966, Jan. 24
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Blockade; Infiltration (Military science); Vietnam (Republic). Quân lực; United States. Navy
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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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
