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...General Vo Nguyen Giap. North Vietnamese army units along the DMZ appear to be shifting eastward, away from Khe Sanh, toward Quang Tri City or Hué. The 304th NVA division, which was south of Khe Sanh, has been moving with truck convoys through the A Shau valley toward Hué. If Hué rather than Khe Sanh is the enemy's big target, that will not bother the allies. Surrounded by open country, Hué sits amid far easier terrain for fighting. Naval guns can reach it for fire support. It lies between two major U.S. bases...
Aware that North Vietnamese regulars are concentrating troops in the A Shau valley 60 miles west of Danang, the U.S. sent B-52s to bomb the area. Air Cavalry troopers landed by helicopter on top of a nest of tunnels in the central province of Quang Ngai, rooted out the North Vietnamese defenders and blew up the bunkers. In the same province, 4th Division troopers flushed an entire North Vietnamese battalion and killed 65, losing only one man themselves...
...province, which abuts on the Demilitarized Zone. Hanoi has put three divisions of North Vietnamese regulars (some 35,000 men) into Quang Tri. Together with the local Viet Cong, in the last six months they have made nearly all the roads of the province too dangerous for travel. A Shau, in Western Quang Tri, the Special Forces camp that the Communists overran last March, is being transformed with bulldozers into a major Red base. Only last summer, 10,000 Marines had to be rushed to Quang Tri to fend off a threatened invasion directly across...
...late to stand and fight whatever the cost, plus evidences of a mounting buildup of forces now coming directly across the demilitarized zone separating North and South Viet Nam, suggests that Hanoi is desperately in search of a victory. One reflection of this need was the attack on A Shau fortnight ago.-Large Red forces have been moving eastward from the mountainous regions around A Shau along the Laotian border, building base camps and supply depots as they go. In effect, the Communists are shortening their supply lines...
...bravery of its defenders, A Shau was a lost fortress, and reluctantly the allies decided to "close the camp." In two days, rescue helicopters plucked 204 survivors, twelve of them American, from the ruins of A Shau. The rest of A Shau's defenders were dead or missing, but the North Vietnamese had paid dearly for their victory in an estimated 500 dead of their...