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Communist forces yesterday captured Quang Tri, the first provincial capital to fall during their 33-day-old offensive. It was the northernmost town still held by South Vietnamese troops...
...airpower save Saigon's army from disaster on the ground? U.S. military advisers in Saigon insist that it has already done so. Without lavish air support, they say, the embattled cities of An Loc and Quang Tri might have fallen to the Communists long ago. In fact, the Americans believe that the North Vietnamese blundered by underestimating the amount of airpower that the U.S. could and would bring to bear on the offensive...
...Military Region I (the north), NVA troops and artillery were once more moving toward Quang Tri city, raising fears of an attack on that vulnerable provincial capital. Several villages in the Southern provinces of the region were reported burned. South Vietnamese troops opened a road from Hue to besieged fire base Bastogne, which last week withstood a North Vietnamese tear-gas attack...
...imperative that ARVN prove itself able to defend a city that in normal times and good weather, is only a two-hour drive from the capital. The Communists have so far been frustrated in their attempts to capture the old imperial capital of Hue or the city of Quang Tri farther north, and it is believed that An Loc was to have been the seat of a provisional Viet Cong government. It should not have been a difficult target. In Binh Long province, the chief ARVN force was the 10,000-man 5th Division, a weak outfit that had been...
...north, Giap's 35,000 troops were stalemated by ARVN defenders around Hué and Quang Tri. North of the latter last week, a clever South Vietnamese marine commander simply evacuated his base after learning of an impending Communist night armor attack; when the North Vietnamese drove into the base, the marines opened fire from the perimeter, knocking out at least five tanks and killing scores of enemy troops. Another Communist armored force roared east on Highway 9 in the darkness, but missed the turn to its objective, Dong Ha. When the sun rose, the parked, puzzled Communists found...