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Digital Object Identifier
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363-04800
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Title
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North Viet Bombed Again; We Clam Up on U.S. Role
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Description
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Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about the American bombing campaign in North Vietnam and the US's refusal to give information to the press, pages 1 and 7
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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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North Viet Bombed Again;
We Clam Up on U.S. Role
By Beverly Deepe
A Special Correspondent
DA NANG,
South Viet Nam.
Twenty-six South Viet-
namese Skyraiders, at least
two of them piloted by Amer-
icans, yesterday rained 60 tons
of bombs and rockets on a
North Vietnamese island naval
base. They were accompanied would not say what bases the
by American jets which
pounded defending anti-air-
craft batteries.
United States spokesmen,
following a new security
policy, refused to disclose how
many American planes were
involved in this fifth air at-
tack on North Viet Nam in
the last five weeks. They also
North Viet Bombed
Again; We Clam Up
(Continued from page one)
ican role in the raid was a
departure from previous pol-
icy. In the past, the spokes-
men have revealed the ap-
proximate though not exact
number of U. S. planes
involved and their bases.
The Embassy spokesman
said that henceforth these
details, and the amount of
bombs or rockets expended
by the U. S. planes, would
not be disclosed when the
attacks are made jointly with
the South Vietnamese. But
when attacks are made solely
by U. S. planes, he said, the
number of aircraft will be
given out.
He said the new policy was
made necessary for military
security reasons "which I
myself do not understand."
The spokesman said the
policy was outlined in a six-
page compilation of messages.
on security received from the
Pentagon. He emphasized that
the loss of any American
planes will be disclosed,
whether or not they are flying
with the South Vietnamese.
"We have not encountered
any explanation of this that
makes any sense," commented
one U. S. official.
Brig. Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky,
South Vietnamese Air Force
commander who led the at-
the
tack yesterday, said
ground fire was fairly heavy
but the defending guns had
been softened up by
the
American jets before the Sky-
raiders went in.
He added that the attacking
planes doubled back on the
island after first passing it in
a feint at the port city of
Dong Hoi, which was hit on
Feb. 7 in the first of the cur-
rent air strikes.
One of the Skyraiders was
flown by Col. Ralph Newman
of Lafayette, Ind., director of
operations for the U. S. Air
Force advisory group at Da
Nang. Another was flown by
another U. S. colonel, who
could not be identified.
As in the last raid against
North Viet Nam on March 2-
when more than 160 U. S.
and South Vietnamese planes.
pounded a naval base and a
border supply depot-yester-
day's attack was described not
as retaliation for a specific
Communist assault but rather
as defense against overall Red
aggression.
At Da Nang, the 3,500-man
U. S. Marine force moved in
to guard the U. S. air base
there suffered its first casu-
alties last night when a Ma-
rine guard fired on a returning
patrol in the belief they were
Red guerrillas. One Marine
was killed and two others
wounded.
U. S. jets flew from, although
it was believed they were
Navy planes operating from
carriers in the South China
Sea.
The target was Tiger Island,
a square-mile speck 15 miles
off the North Vietnamese
coast and 18 miles above the
North-South Vietnamese bor-
der. Military installations
there were "totally destroyed,"
a South Vietnamese spokes-
man said.
The island, described as a
source of seaborne supplies
for the Communist Viet Cong
guerrillas, was the site of a
radar station, which could
spot planes approaching from
the south, supply depots and
barracks, the spokesman said.
It was defended by 12 heavy
gun positions and 49 auto-
matic weapons positions.
North Viet Nam claimed
one of the attacking planes
was shot down in the sea.
But both U. S. and South
Vietnamese
spokesmen said
no planes were lost although
some were hit by anti-aircraft
fire.
The refusal of U. S. Em-
bassy and military spokesmen
to give details on the Amer-
More on VIET-P 7
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Date
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1965, Mar. 15
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Aerial operations; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States. Air Force; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Press coverage; Bombardment; Bombing, aerial
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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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Container
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B4, F6
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Format
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newspaper clippings
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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
