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363-04112 to 363-04113.pdf
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Digital Object Identifier
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363-04112 to 363-04113
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Title
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Article fragment about American bombing in Khe Sahn
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Description
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Original title: "focus", Keever's title: "Tens of U.S. Bombs Supporting Khe Sahn Equals Five Hiroshimas." Fragment of an article draft describing the American bombing campaign around the Khe Sahn Base. Written for the Christian Science Monitor
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AI Usage Disclosure
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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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SAIGON, APRIL 15-In seventy days, American aircraft dropped
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95,000 tons ob bombs around the Khe Sanh combat base-a tonnage equivalent
of noarly five atomic bombs of Hiroshima vintage. More tone tonnaged was
dropped in support of Khe Sanh than was dropped by all Allied aircraft
during World For II
on Europe in 1942 and 1943 combined, and more than all the conventional
ordnance (excluding the atomic bombs) than was dropped on Jah Japan
through throughout World War II.
The support of Khe Sanh from
2 January 21, when the siege began, to March 31, when the ground,
offensive began, represented one-fifth of the tonnage of Allied
bombers during all of the Koroan War.
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U. S. Air Force, Navy and Marine tactical tactical aircraft flew
21,890 individual strike sorties-one plane on one strike.
eight-engine B-52's few 425 millions missi
The giant
varying between three to
twelve aircraft por mission. B-52 sorties are not released.
Because of the devastation to the green hills and surrounding jungles,
as moreand more
Khe Sanh became known to Air Force as "the Big Red Soar,"
red olay was churned up.
The B-52 missions marked the first in the Vietnam war-and in history-
SAC bombers were used for tactical support of ground troops on such a
MASSIVE THUND
called
sustar sustained basis. The Marines in Khe Sanh, while under siege,
the B-52 raids "the No. 1 song on our hit parade. That's really sweet
music." The low rumble, the whirring of the bombs, the shaking
hills sometimes only 1500 meters from the Marine frontlines-caused off
one low-ranking American Air Force officer to comment, "This really is
something historic for me...to/ see a B-52 raid so close to human
beings. Even Air Force generals have never seen this."
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Date
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1968, Apr. 15
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Subject
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Khe Sanh, 2nd Battle of, Vietnam, 1968; Tet Offensive, 1968; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; United States. Marine Corps
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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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B10, F11
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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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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
