Article about a Việt Cộng battle

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Title
Article about a Việt Cộng battle
Description
Keever's title: "Viet Cong Vow to Fight U.S. Units by Unit as More U.S. Troops Arrive", article about a battle where the Việt Cộng fought and killed American troops
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ATen onnox upi special for gandy by bev deope saigon vietnam
sept 26231
(UPIS)
Sigon-Communist Viet Cong commanders have taken the "determined decision
to fight and destroy American troops unit by unit, the clandestine Liberation
Radio and Radio llanol recently announcod.
The decision,, announced with the past ten days, was regarded horo
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by military exports as the answer to Washington sources that the Vietcong
would have aye tough time fighting the over increasing number of American
combat troops which have now surpassed the initial 125,000 initially
carmarked by President Johnson.
Military sources here believe the Viot Cong troops have laready
received instructions from their commanders to standup otfight the Amorionn
unito. An American military spokesman Sunday night announced the
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first add (dcope) x x x advisors.
In another instance,
an American military spokesman announced Anx
that last wook a rocord number of American patrols had made contact with
the Viet Cong dash eightyfive of the elevonhundred forty
American
small unit actions comma or roughly thirteen percent. only sixty american
patrols during the previous wook had made contact with the vietoonge
During the past week, both American and Vietnamese units
faced bitter Viet Cong fighting. On Septanbes i nineteen, Viet Cong
units badly hit elements of the Unistates onehundred one airborne as it
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search and destroy operation
helilifted into landing scnes to being
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"operation gibraltar." Two waves of helicopters had dropped in troops but
Viet Cong groundfire was so intense that one reinforced airborne company
was virtually encircled
helicopter waves were unable to land, step olements of americas alito
first air cavalry division met its first combat tests four of their
helicopters wore shot down stop
the not results of the three day
for twentyfour houre virtixam bat successive
operation were light american casualties dash according to official
announcements undash and twohundred twentysix vietoong le confirmed
dead by bodycount. moredeope
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second add (doope) x x x bodycount.
Lintelligence sources in Saigon talked of the Viet Cong
de-escalating into second phase intensive guerrilla warfare by breakingup
their thirdphase mobile e varfare battalions "spreading thom
this, past weak: on
all over the country like butter over bread." Yet,
september twontythird an estimated vietcong regiment in aye well synchronized
classical mobile warfare operation along ayo twenty mile front near the
coastal city of phy
Ey Stol phu my. The Viet Cong units
successively attacked aye government company of irregular troops, causing
heavy casualties, then ambushed two reaction forces, engaging each
in heavy ground fighting dospito a total of fiftyeight air stora sot
sorties in which one
f unistates air force fffonh fffonehundred was
shotdown stop the vietcong also mortarod two important government centers
and blowup aye bridge.stop officially, vietnamese government casualties
were moderate; onohundred fifty vietcong were confirmed dead by emorican
bodycounty but vietnamese sources claimed more than sizhundred victoong
dead enditdeope
Date
1965, Sep. 26
Subject
Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Tactics; United States. Army
Location
Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates
10.8231; 106.6311
Size
20 x 26 cm
Container
B187, F6
Format
dispatches
Collection Number
MS 363
Collection Title
Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator
Keever, Beverly Deepe
Collector
Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Language
English