Article about rocket attacks on Saigon

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Title
Article about rocket attacks on Saigon
Description
Original title: "rocket", Keever's title: "Communist 'Phantom Rocketeers' Shell Saigon." Article draft about the use of USSR made rockets against Saigon. Written for the Christian Science Monitor
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SAIGON, JUNE 14-Discarding clumsy tubes and tripods,
Communists have developed the capability of using "phantom rocketeers"
man-made rice-paddy launching sites to continue shee shelling the this
je jittery capital or other psychologically-important targets.
Rumors swirled around the capital of even heavier shelling this
week-end--and more bitter ground fighting in July-swirled around the
capital in the wake of nearly two weeks of hit-and-miss, off-again, on-agai
bombardment o Communist bombardment of Saigon. These gloomy expectations
-perhaps indexing the frg fright in the capital rather than accuracy
of predictions-far outpaced any optimistic words that the Paris peace
their 122 mm. Locket atta
talks would persuade the Communists to cease Many Vietnamese fear
the Communists might initiate post-curfew, daylight shelling when Saigon
shops are open, the streets are filled and traffic is hectic.
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Intelligence sources report the "phantom rocketeers"
developed from what one source called "a combination of Russian technology
and destructive Vietnamese ingenuity." These sources say-based on
interrogation of resente recently-captured Communist artillery officer and
other information-the Communists have developed a technique by which the
Soviet-made rockets can be fired without the
gangly tube and tripod.
VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS"
They have begun-and used in the past to an unknown extent-the practice
of making out of mud on rice paddy, dikes semi-circular indentations
with a smooth pole the same size as the rocket,
Under the hot sun,
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the mud dries and hardened into them in instant rocket launci
launch launcher, the same size as the six-foot, two-inch long rocket.
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Beforehand, Communist artillery surveyors have picked out the
rice paddy dike they estimate to be the proper range from the designated
target six or seven miles away and have designated the angle of elevation
inxmimai xham on the rice paddy dike that the rocket launcher should be
constructed at to send the mini-missile on its flight. Generally six to eight
orf t
these rocket sites
man-made rocket sites are constructed in one pocket,
so that a volley of rockets can be fired simultaneously.
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This covey of rockets can be connected by wire wiring to a common
detonating device-such as flashlight batteries-sent into/flight/by
one man-or by "phantom rocketeers." The latter is a means of
B/lighting
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a slow-burning joss stick, which, in as it burns, toxing
us suddenly near a string for example, suddenly ignites the string which
in turn sets in motion the detonating device--and all the rockets simultaneo
simultaneously lauo launch sywa
responsible are far from the launching site-thus
war skywards. In this case, the Communists
us making detection of
them virtually impossible and ffun finding the rocket sites virtually
impossible.
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Date
1968, Jun. 14
Subject
Saigon (Vietnam); Bombing, aerial; Bombardment; Arms transfers; Military assistance; Soviet Union; Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Location
Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates
10.8231; 106.6311
Size
20 x 26 cm
Container
B10, F38
Format
dispatches
Collection Number
MS 363
Collection Title
Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator
Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Language
English