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...News charged yesterday that it had seen American ground troops, with Army rifles and U.S. combat boots but otherwise wearing civilian clothing, standing on the ground at Phnom Penh airport in Cambodia on Tuesday...
...said that the group of American personnel "carrying combat boots, but otherwise dressed in civilian clothes" had been brought to Phnom Penh in the giant CH47s which were airlifting two small UH1 Huey helicopters which had been damaged in fighting in Cambodia...
During the Route 4 attack, American helicopter gave direct combat support to the South Vietnamese and Cambodians. The helicopters-each of them carrying cannons and grenade launchers-flew from American carriers in the Gulf of Siam and a land base on the Cambodia-Vietnam border...
Before the attack, American officials claimed their planes were only carrying out "interdiction" raids in Cambodia-high level bombing of enemy supply lines. But after several eyewitnesses reported on the helicopter attacks, the Pentagon admitted that Americans were involved more deeply than they had previously revealed...
Both Houses of Congress reacted to his announcement with attempts to block further involvement. In the House, 64 Democrats introduced a bill to ban American air or sea combat support for "any military operations in Cambodia...