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Digital Object Identifier
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363-05215 to 363-05220
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Title
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Article about the aftermath of the Battle of Khe Sanh
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Description
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Original title: "revisit", Keever's title: "Besides Marines, Communists also Hover Around Khe Sanh", Article draft about the aftermath of the Battle of Khe Sanh, for the Christian Science Monitor, page 1-6
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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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revisit 1 (normass/deepe)
KHE SANH, SOUTH VIETNAM, OCTOBER 10-Before the American Marines
the North Vietnam Army was
re-visited this once-besieged combat base,
using the greater Khe Sanh area for movement of men and supplies, official
sources report.
In addition,
young Marine snipers, who ra consistently roam the
surrounding hills armed with binocular-styled sniper-scopes and
power-scopes, have reported seeing Communist helicopters land on the
old Khe Sanh airstrip. One young sniper related this to this correspondent
that he had seen a Communist helicopter land there but "the colonel told
me just to shut up about it."
Senior Marine officers, however, deny tx that any Communist
helicopters have flown south of the demilitarized zone--including lending
at the Khe Sanh airstrip. Some officers postulated that some unidentified
helicopters might belong to the American and Vietnamese "pl "spooking"
directed by the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency,
operations,
words of one senior officer,
and what they're doing."
and in the
"These guys never tell us where they're going
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Some Marine helicopter pilots, however, accept the report of the
young snipers that Communist helicopters have landed at Khe Sanh. And,
one Army helicopter gave this correspondent a two twenty-minute play-by-play
on the UFO (unidentified flying object) he he had personally witnessed
flying over the Marine base at Dong Ha. "At first my co-p8 pilot and I
thought it was a falling star," he explained. "It was going just that fast.
backwards
But, then it stopped and hovered over Dong Ha and then it started flying
and finally it started elevating like a rocket and s zoomed away.
Is all we could see was a white misty object with two green lights on it.
My gunners were scared to death and radioed let's get out of here".
I reo radioed all the contraol towers in the arca, but no one else ever
these
spotted it. I never believed in the UFO stories before, but I do now.
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At Khe Sanh itself, unconfirmed intelligence reports indicate that
armed North Vietnamese troops actually stood on the airstrip, abandoned by
the Marines 92 days before--and were hid in the area where metal revetnents,
shaped like three sides of are rectangle-once protected Marine aircraft
from Communist shellings. Other Marine sources said the Communist troopers
Away
FD Haule
had pulled up some of the strips of the pierced stoel planking the strips
are the size of pingel pingpong tables-from the Khe Sanh runway, probably
to be used as bunkering material.
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In recent weeks, just before the Marines tempro temporarily moved
back into old the an abandoned combat base, "numerous sitings" Were
made in the Khe Sanh hills of North Vietnamese soldiers wearing
Ba
Batman-styled capes made of American mottled green camouflaged
parachutes. Most of these Communist soldiers sa appeared to be
searching for food--Communist prisoners and defectors say the
NVA
If
are short of food, but not of ammunition and weapons.
observed by aircraft, the North Vidy Vietnamese soldiers would pull
the cape of camouflage parachute over himself to disguise himself
as a bush
or as one of the hundres hundreds of other parachutes that
dot the hills.
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During their 92 day physical absence from Khe Sanh, the Marines
had kept the greate surrounding hillsides and lonesome airstrip under
constant surveillance, with many kinds of air observation, including
airborne side-looking radar, long-range reconnaissance patrols on the
ground, color photographic missions, age intelligence agents among the
dispersed tribal populations and sitings from Marine outposts hilltop
outposts which survey the Khe Sanh valley. The current Marine re-visit
of to Khe Sanh of an infantry company and artillery unit is nothing more
than a re-visit--the Marines are not going to stay long enough to
set up a permanent base camp.
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Through the northwest passage leading from Laos to the Khe Sanh area,
the Communists have upgraded their trail networks into single-land roads.
Heavy traffic has been observed on these roads--by trucks, motorbikes, by fo
foot fer soldiers and brunotan Montagnard porters of the Bru tribe
x even k elephants and water buffaloes are considered by intelligence
sources to be used as pack animals for carrying supplies. The Marines
have yet to act spot an actual elephant caravant hauling ins
supplies but they have found elephant hoof-prints and droppings of waste.
The Communists had also been moving traffic along the dusty branch
American Marine ground
of Route 9, running west of Khe Sanh into Laos.
units are now sweeing this branch of Route 9 near the 18 Laotien border.
As the Marines began operating in force around Khe Sanh late last
AND BOMBEL
week, Meer American aircraft spotted) a truckload of Communist troops moving
by into South Vietnam from Laos by od road and bombed It.
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Date
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1968, Oct. 10
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Subject
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Khe Sanh, 2nd Battle of, Vietnam, 1968; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam
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Location
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Khe Sanh, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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16.6193, 106.7305
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B10, F39
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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
