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...about the time of Pueblo's capture. Further, in towing Pueblo into Wonsan, the Koreans sailed in close formation, which would have made it difficult for a strafing plane to avoid killing Americans. Once in Wonsan, the six U.S. officers were met by Defense Minister Kim Chang Bong, who flew back with them to Pyongyang, the capital...
...ability to fight hard, if they choose to, in nearly every province in Viet Nam. Lieut. General Bruce Palmer, Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army in Viet Nam, calls the pressure "heavy and sustained" in I Corps, in the area around Saigon, in the Chu Lai area and around Bong Son on the coastal plains-and "sporadic" all over the rest of the country...
Their losses have been large. In clashes last week alone, the Communists lost 54 dead at Gio Linh near the Demilitarized Zone in the northern province of Quang Tri, 56 near Danang, 471 at Bong Son in the center of the country along the coast, 143 north of Saigon, 39 northwest of the capital, and 501 in the Mekong Delta in the south. In all, 65 Americans and 78 South Vietnamese died in the battles. Meanwhile, Ho's homeland was heavily pounded last week by U.S. fighter-bombers. As monsoon clouds cleared for the first time in three weeks...
Heavier on the Trail. The fighting kept up its recent hot pace elsewhere in Viet Nam. In the Bong Son plain, bordering on the South China Sea, the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) and South Vietnamese troops routed two battalions of North Vietnamese regulars, killing more than 250. U.S. Marines south of Danang killed 99 North Vietnamese in a day's battle. Not far away, an Air Cav reconnaissance helicopter team got in a shooting match on the ground and killed the regimental commander of the 3rd Regiment, 2nd Division of the North Vietnamese army. On him and his party were...
...patrols of their own. But the enemy's main thrust has been at forward U.S. artillery batteries that make American deep patrols both possible and potent. In recent weeks the Communists have launched frantic attacks at U.S. forward fire bases from Camp Carroll along the Demilitarized Zone to Bong Son near the eastern coast. When mortaring, though, they have only two minutes to do their damage: that is just how long it takes U.S. guns to zero in on them and begin raining down their whistling packets of death...