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...Tho race track, apparently mixing with civilians to avoid detection. Allied mopping up around Saigon may have yielded an important catch. The government professed "80% certainty" that one enemy body found was that of North Vietnamese Major General Tran Do, 48, political chief and second deputy commander of the Liberation Army. A final fingerprint check was awaited to determine if it really...
...penetrated the perimeter before being repulsed. At the Dong Ba Thien airfield just north of Cam Ranh Bay, attackers using satchel charges destroyed nine helicopters. In the Mekong Delta, long a Viet Cong haven, the situation seemed even more serious. The Communists held half the important city of My Tho and parts of several provincial capitals...
...second battle was entirely a Vietnamese victory. Two companies of a Ranger battalion were moving along a canal line 22 miles southwest of the Delta's largest city, Can Tho, when they ran into two Viet Cong battalions: the local force U Minh 10 and the 303rd main force unit. In a fierce fight that raged through most of one day, the South Vietnamese killed 265 of the V.C., and supporting helicopters and fighter-bombers accounted for another 100 dead. The total of 365 enemy dead was the largest ever inflicted in a Delta battle, with more probably...
...Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Sloan volunteered for Vietnam but instead was shipped to Munsan-ni, Korea because he didn't have the rank to get to Vietnam. After nine months in Korea and a promotion to SP4, Sloan again volunteered for Vietnam and finally made it to Can Tho in the Mekong by April...
...almost three years his family, friends and the U.S. Government explored every channel, diplomatic and private, seeking his release. Last week his wife received a letter from Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk stating that her husband had died in captivity on Sept. 24. Sihanouk's source: Nguyen Huu Tho, leader of the V.C.'s National Liberation Front...