Report in Saigon: More Marines Due

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Report in Saigon: More Marines Due

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Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about the increased number of Marines being sent to South Vietnam, pages 1 and 11

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Report in Saigon:
More Marines Due
By Beverly Deepe
A Special Correspondent
SAIGON.
Up to 10,000 more American
Marines are expected to be
sent to South Viet Nam soon,
eliable sources here said
yesterday.
The augmented force's role
would be the defense of major
nilitary installations and per-
aps important cities, but the
Marines' duties would place
hem under combat conditions,
he sources noted.
A 3,500-man Marine con-
ingent already has been as-
igned to Viet Nam for this
function, with more than half
the force deployed around the
big U. S. air base at Da Nang.
In Washington, officials
denied last night that the
United States at present
intends to send additional
large numbers of ground
troops to South Viet Nam. A
qualified source said the idea
was not even being dis-
cussed because there has
been no request to this effect
from the South Vietnamese
government.
Ihe sources in Saigon also
indicated that more ground
forces are expected in the
More on MARINES-P 11
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Wednesday, March 10, 1965
New York Herald Tribune
REPORT MORE MARINES FOR VIET
(Continued from page one)
coming months from other
Free World nations, particu-
larly from Asia but also pos-
sibly token forces from
South America and Europe.
KOREA
I a related development,
the command responsibility
for prosecution of the anti-
Communist war would be
shifted from total Vietnamese
control to that of a combined
command including a number
of Allied nations, the sources
said.
They indicated that the
multi-national command, in
which American officers would
play a major if not a leading
role, would vaguely resemble
the United Nations Command
that operated during the
Korean War-but without the
UN. The sources said the com-
bined command, still in for-
mulative planning stages,
would be established at least
by June, if not sooner.
It was understood in Wash-
ington that the Saigon joint
command proposals, coming
mostly from the Vietnamese
side, have been discussed for
at least a year. American of-
ficials said formal implemen-
tation of the idea would be
difficult and they were aware
of no progress toward an
agreement on the subject.
CHINA
The U. S. Marines arriving
in the future, it was said,
probably will have the respon-
sibility of securing such major
installations as the jet-length
runways at Bien Hoa, only 20
miles from Saigon, where four
Americans were killed and six
U. S. jet bombers destroyed in
a Communist Viet Cong mor-
tar attack last Nov. 1.
The sources said the Philip-
pines may send as many as
4,000 soldiers to Viet Nam at
a later date. Nationalist China
is known to be willing to send
ground units, but is currently
awaiting an invitation from
the South Vietnamese govern-
ment. These forces probably
would be used for building
roads or providing logistical
support, but they would op-
erate in Communist-infested
areas.
The Japanese constitution
prohibits the sending of mili-
tary forces, but Japan prob-
ably will increase civilian
technical assistance, the
sources said.
"Token" or "symbolic" mil-
itary forces from some Euro-
pean and South American
countries also is a current
consideration, according to the
sources.
It is also considered pos-
sible that Thailand may send
military units to South Viet
Nam or southern Laos.
Six hundred South Korean
ground troops-the first con-
tingent of an expected 2,000-
man force already have ar-
rived in South Viet Nam. The
South Koreans are engaged
in non-combat activities such
as road and dispensary build-
ing, but, like the U. S. Ma-
rines, they are prepared to
fight if attacked.
Yesterday, a squadron of
U. S. Marine helicopters
generally 24 aircraft-began
arriving to serve as the air
arm of the Marine Brigade.
Official American sources
refused to say at what dis-
tance the Marine ground units
and the incoming helicopter
squadron would operate
around the Da Nang airbase
for security. However, mili-
tary experts believe units re-
sponsible for the security of
installations must operate at
least beyond the range of
mortars and 75-mm. recoilless
rifle fire-more than two
miles which Viet Cong units
are capable of lobbing onto
air bases.
TALKS
The sources said the plan
for more American ground
security forces has been un-
der consideration for a long
time. But two current factors
have necessitated its imple-
mentation:
First, in the view of Amer-
ican political analysts here,
Communist North Viet Nam
is not now considering ne-
gotiations that would be ac-
ceptable to Saigon and Wash-
ington and probably will not
do so in the future.
Second, the military situa-
tion in the northern prov-
inces of South Viet Nam has
deteriorated sharply since the
Feb. 7 bombing of North Viet
Nam by American jet planes.
A growing number of units
of North Vietnamese-born
personnel have infiltrated
from North Viet Nam in past
months and drastically in-
creased the military pressure
in provinces bordering south-
ern Laos, where U. S. jet
fighters also have been con-
ducting air strikes.
LANDING
SAIGON (UPI).
The last of the 3,500 U. S.
Marines sent into South Viet
Nam were landing yesterday
at Da Nang, on the South
China Sea coast 350 miles
northeast of here.
Army Gen. William C. West
moreland, commander of U.
forces in Viet Nam flew to
Nang to confer with B
Gen. Frederick J. Karch
is commanding the Ma
force.
One Marine officer se
as an adviser with
Vietnamese forces was
and another wounded
day in a Viet Cong
285 miles northeast o

Date

1965, Mar. 10

Subject

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Campaigns, American; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Naval operations, American; United States. Marine Corps--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975

Location

Saigon, South Vietnam

Coordinates

10.8231; 106.6311

Container

B4, F6

Format

newspaper clippings

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