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...Saigon-American troops caught a North Vietnamese force in a pincer movement in the central coastal plain yesterday, killing 128 enemy soldiers in day-long fighting...
...been conventional, more like the European wars than the guerrilla war in South Viet Nam. If you contact the enemy you can destroy him. I like that -it's much easier to make war." Only once, however, has an ARVN force made significant contact. Early last month a pincer movement of 18,000 troops trapped about 4,000 Viet Cong in the Parrot's Beak; some 1,200 Communists died in the one-sided, two-day fight...
...Pincer Attack...
...points, the helicopter-borne Air Cav and South Vietnamese troopers achieved total tactical surprise. "Sure, the Communists had some knowledge that we were planning a big move," said one U.S. military source. "But they never expected an air assault-never anticipated the choppers coming in on them." The pincer attack was so swift that the enemy never did get its .51-cal. antiaircraft batteries in firing position. In the first hours of the assault, one ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) airborne unit set down right on top of a North Vietnamese regimental base area. The North Vietnamese...
...Saigon-American troops caught a North Vietnamese force in a pincer movement in the central coastal plain yesterday, killing 128 enemy soldiers in day long fighting...