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...visit to the refugee camps, and we visited them around Saigon, in Hue, most intensively in the city of Quang Ngai, a visit to these camps brought out one thing which I had not quite been prepared for. As you walked through the camp, looking around, smiling at people, greeting people, children run around your legs as children will anyplace in the world, having great fun. Even the women might smile back when you greet them. However, from the men, regardless what their age was, we got a very sullen stare in response...
What was interesting to recognize, though, is that these free fire zones started just a few kilometers down the road from the major cities. The free fire zone outside Quang Ngai was just eight or ten kilometers from the city center. What this meant is that peasants working out in the field were regularly subjected to firing, to bombing, to harrassment. All night long as we lay in our beds at Quang Ngai, we could hear the mortars and artillery and the helicopters raining down their terror on different parts of the countryside. And in the morning the results were...
...force. In a fierce day-long battle, the ARVN soldiers, using their new M16s, killed at least 100 of the North Vietnamese v. only 15 ARVN dead, while allied air, artillery and helicopters killed another 100. A day later, another ARVN battalion flushed a Viet Cong unit in Quang Ngai province to the south and killed...
Vietnamese units remain in the country, stretched from the outskirts of Hue and Danang in the north, southward to Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh and Phu Yen provinces, and northwest of Saigon in Hau Nghia and Tay Ninh provinces. To ferret them out, says Westmoreland, will take twice the time and twice the cost in casualties it would have taken to stop them at the frontier...
...July, Owen returned to Viet Nam. As an adviser to that nation's Revolutionary Development Program, he was assigned to work with villagers in Viet Cong-infested Quang Ngai province, 300 miles northeast of Saigon. Fortnight ago, Owen and three other Americans volunteered to drive from Quang Ngai City four miles to a coastal hamlet to warn U.S. and Vietnamese co-workers that Viet Cong had attacked the city and were believed still to be lurking in the area. On the way back, the Jeep was ambushed. Taking cover in a cornfield, Owen and his companions were bombarded...