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Army: Garinger 6:13 0-0 21: Hanson 4-8 0-0 8: Jeanneret 2-3 0-0 4: Khoun 1-1 0-0 2: List 1-2 1-2 4: Russell 10-22 6-8 26. Scapsella 1-7 0-0 1. Totals...
With the northeast securely in Communist hands, two Pathet Lao columns moved on the royal capital of Luang-prabang. routed government forces at Phou Khoun and drove to within 15 miles of the city. In central Laos the town of Kamkeut, which lies astride the strategic road running to Viet Nam, fell to the advancing Reds. Vientiane itself was closely ringed by six Pathet Lao companies which ambushed convoys and sent patrols ranging as far as a U.S. compound barely three miles from the center of the city...
...from Luangprabang unleashed 135 rounds of 105-mm howitzer shells at a "suspected sniper." Later, atop a hill, he sent a massive artillery barrage crashing into the unscouted jungle ahead, declaring that "this will scare them off"-and it soon did. Closing on the key road junction of Phou Khoun, the troops from the north and a column from Vientiane raked the junction from both sides...
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