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363-01275 to 363-01282
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Article about Demilitarized Zone
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Description
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Original caption: "dmz." Article about escalation of tensions in the Demilitarized Zone, for the Christian Science Monitor
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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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DONG HA, SOUTH VIETNAM, JUNE 9-The war along the demilitarized zone
appears to be escalating dramatically--if not wildly.
Senior American commanders blame the North Vietnamese for the current round
of escalation--and they are, in turn, using nearly all available means to hold
the line against any potential Communist gains.
The military trends along the DMZ appear contradictory to American
pleas at the Paris peace talks for the North Vietnamese to de-escalate the
scale of their military activities in the South, especially along the
-mile-long line at the 17th parallel that technically separates North and
South Vietnam.
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Senior American military commanders are not in agreement here whether
the future battlefield actions will determine the bargaining points at Paris--
or whether the peace talks will even further influence the battlefield situation.
Senior ground commanders believe the Communist escalation around the DMZ is
But senior commanders running the air war
designed to influence the peace talks.
over North Vietnam are "apprehensive" that American negofi negotiators in Paris
may agree to stop the bombing abawamm over reduced bombing all the bombing
over North Vietnam, which they believe would jeopardize American ground troops
just south of the DMZ.
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One new, specific x fear voiced by these air-warriors:
that Hanoi will
publicly offer at Paris to release captured American fliers if Washington agrees to
stopping the bombing "and other acts of war" above the DMZ. Although some of their
personal friends wer are believed held in North Vietnamese prison camps,
none of
the Navy and Air Force pilots I talks with approved of stopping the air war over
North Vietnam on those terms. But, they are worried it would be a difficult
proposal for the American government to justify rejecting to the American public
and international world a opinion.
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"The situation along the DMZ is pretty much of a conventional war battle-theatre,
one high-placed source explained. "There is a frontline, but it is not as fluid
as the frontlines in Europe or the Pacific during World War II. It is more
MAKE
like World War I, in which both sides classical conventional use of
maneuver elements and use artillery. But, the North Vietnamese frontline
is not fixed. It is a question of the Allies keeping them as fixed as possible.
When the NVA move, the Allies fix and destroy them; then they
and the Allies re-fix them. The whole process starts again."
withdraw
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American field commanders bring up these specific points regarding the
Communist escalation:
1.
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Increasingly sophisticated weaponry and logistical systems.
More than ever before, American aircraft flying north or south of the DMZ are
in jeopardy. More than ten surface-to-air missile sites, of which only one is
known to be manned, are positioned along the just north of the DMZ in the
eastern sector. These sites are simply the ground preparations for the placement
of SAM's and associated equipment--the missiles, launchers and radar equipment
by American pilots
One SAM has been seen to explode of
are moved around between these sites.
14
miles south of the
Dong Ha, the headquarters of the Third Marine Division /
Ben H RUST
It had been fired at a Marine aircraft flying a reconnass reconnaissance
Tills mission north of the DMZ.
At least one SHA SAM has been officially
announced as fired at a B-52 mil mission nor along the DMZ.
flying transports into Marine post positions south of the DMZ
worried about the 100 mm.
American pilots
are becoming
radar-controlled anti-aircraft weapons the Communists
are known to have poised on their side of the DZ. DMZ. Special flight patterns
have been worked out so that American aircraft are not "locked in caught and
On the ground, American commanders are
"locked in" by the Communist radar.
voice amazement at the fine equipment of the individual North Vietnamese soldier,
These commanders believe
his plus the increased luxury of his supporting weapons.
the NVA is attempting to supplement his high highly-mobile rocket artillery
with standard field artillery pieces.
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American field commanders bring up these specific points regarding the
in filteation.
3. On ground
troops North Vietnamese troops are pouring into
"but
South Vietnam--easily replacing their increasingly high rate of battlefield losses.
"We know the infiltration is increasing," one high-placed source explained,
we don't know where it stops--if it stops along the DMZ, or in the central
highlands or where. We suspect they are spreading their troops around as they
try to maintain military pressure in all areas...in order to back their hand
in Paris. But The DMZ is the lee piece of real estate closest to North
Vientem Vietnam, which makes it easier to reinforce, resupply and move in
heavy artillery."
The relative balance of Allied-Communist main-unit forces
along the DMZ is considered to remain essentially the same as during February,
during the Tet offensive, but both sides reinforced heavily just prior to that,
informed sources report.
No specific statistics regarding the level
increased level of infiltration were available here.
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ground tactics, the Cam North Vietnamese units
Soldiers AND
near the DMZ have begun waging setpiece battles with American/Marines---and
counterattacking in broad daylight. The most extreme, example of this
and lasted five days
example was the battle of Dai Do, which began on April 29
of the DMZ and just
miles south
miles northwest of Dong Ha, the US Marine
headquarters for their Third Division.
"There were several things out of
character in that extremely sharp action," one Marine general explained. "The
North Vietnamese const consistently counterattacked--he counterattacked
three times (twice in one day and once another day). The enemy showed
tremendous determination and this becomes appara apparent in several other
engagements also. The North V NVA is counterattacking to an extent it n
it has never done before."
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SAH
(Hank: Thanks for your cable. Will airmail postmortem as soon as possible.
Regards Bev).
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Date
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1968, June 9
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam Demilitarized Zone (Vietnam); Escalation (Military science); Strategy
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Location
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Đông Hà, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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16.8089; 107.0894
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B11, F6
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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
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Language
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English
