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...ARVN armor on Route 9 was to have thrust 25 miles to Tchepone, where main branches of the Ho Chi Minh Trail meet before snaking off into South Viet Nam and Cambodia...
...discussed precisely how and when Tri would take over command of Lam Son 719 from I Corps commander Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam. After the talk, Tri boarded his helicopter to see how his troops were faring in their other outcountry incursion, a drive through Communist sanctuaries in southeastern Cambodia. Barely 2½ hours later, the body of Do Cao Tri was pulled from the wreckage of his craft in Tay Ninh province...
...minute press conference at the Pentagon, Laird and Lieut. General John W. Vogt Jr., a ranking member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, claimed that ARVN was racking up impressive kill ratios in Southern Laos and in Cambodia. Overall, the casualty totals for the first three weeks of the operation were, if ARVN figures are to be believed, 19,715 Communist dead v. 2,208 ARVN dead. U.S. casualties have been 40 killed and 34 wounded. Casualty rates aside, was ARVN stalled? No, said Vogt. The weeklong halt on Route 9 was a deliberate "pause" to give commanders a chance...
Rather than fade away, as they did in Cambodia, the North Vietnamese troops have moved into defensive positions and reinforced themselves with unexpected speed. Some 35,000 Communist troops are arrayed around Tchepone in a great semicircle facing the ARVN advance. Pentagon experts say that another 20,000 North Vietnamese troops are converging on Route 9 from north and south. They will soon be joined by 6,000 fresh troops from the three North Vietnamese divisions above the Demilitarized Zone...
...often rated as ARVN's best fighting general, and his feats of personal bravery became legend. During last May's campaign in Cambodia, Tri frequently swooped down in his chopper to take personal command of a unit in trouble. On one occasion, after the man standing next to him was killed by an enemy shell, the plucky general leaped aboard an armored personnel carrier and urged it toward the source of the gunfire, shouting, "Forward, forward...