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...Collecting salaries for phantom troops, an old stand-by that still nourishes. One battalion in Dinh Tuong province carries 360 men on the pay book, but psychological-warfare investigators could count only 68 actual soldiers. Phantom troops show up only on pay day, turning over all or part of their pay to the commander before heading back to safe civilian jobs...
...most heavily hit region of the current campaign has been Dinh Tuong province, where 600,000 Vietnamese, mostly small farmers, are crammed into a tiny area one-third the size of Rhode Island. In the past two months, American planes have flown more than 125 missions over Dinh Tuong-an average of more than two a day. Each mission is composed of anywhere from three to 36 B-52s; each plane is loaded with 30 tons of bombs. A few of the victims at present in Dinh Tuong Hospital...
...maintains that civilians are not being bombed in the Delta. But last week Tom Fox of TIME's Saigon bureau paid a visit to Dinh Tuong province. He found that in fact the bombing has claimed numerous civilian casualties. When they heard Fox inquiring about the bombing, more than a dozen other patients came forward to offer the names of civilians and villages that have been struck. "The bombs are falling everywhere, and the civilians are getting killed," one woman said...
...Cong had recently broken contact in the province, and that no one really knew where they were. In the American effort to eliminate this elusive, wandering enemy -numbering 5,000 by the officer's estimate-the bombs are dropping night and day on the friendly Vietnamese of Dinh Tuong, who can only do their best to stay out of harm...
Nguyen Ty Hin, the sister of Mai, Dr. Tuong told me, was running for shelter when she was hit with shrapnel which severely wounded her hip. A large wound was opened up by a splinter from an anti-personnel bomb...