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deI carrying charges under the al- Christian was asked if Prcsi-. ing of a hush-hush nature. be i ———’ ———————————————.——miryied|iw-1toU.S. Hits Southern North Vietnam With War's Heaviest Bomb Raids -ifiow of war materials to enemy (Vietnam than ever before.By GEORGE ESP Eft troops in South Vietnam. In South Vietnam, only oneAssociated Press Writer I Suob heavy B52 strikes some SAIGON (AP) — US. Alr.times have signaled a massive Force B52 bombers attacked the American ground sweep. It ia southernmost part of North Vietnam with the heaviest sa turalion raids of the war Mon-■Qf day and today.significant ground action waa reported Monday as a general lull continued.In a day of fighting three miles southeast of the nearly abandoned combat base at Khemost unlikely that American troops plan a sweep into the northern half of the DMZ or______ above it. But the B52s could bejSanb, 157 North VietnameseWave after wave of America's softening up the enemy’s irtil-|were killed, U.S. Marines re-WSS ttU ^*|K8!i sswskthu i*id th. ilonje [Slrikes'and artillery. U.S.^IwInam s border |trators headed‘south and the ar- With the North VietnameseV,!h no l'.rr.^ ,»**,. lt;AHnltiUery crews allackiDg South forces under heavy air attack._ Each B52 *^1* i Vietnam's frontier. the Marines reported two ofist’S^ 750-pound wurces pointed out thatiiheir oWn men killed and 11ibombs. : enemy artillery some of which!wounded.Nine missions of five planes,has a range of 16 miles, has1 Deep in the Mekong Delta, 122 “ each hit just inside North Viet- harassing the big allied miles southwest of Saigon, al-*®ioam. Another six missions1 SUpply bases of Dong Ha and lied forces reported their third•”! struck the northern half of the Cua Viet, at the eastern end of big discovery of stockpiled ene-“^demilitsrized zone. the DMZ. Dong Ha is also head- my weapons since Saturday.The mam targets were North quarters of the U.S. 3rd Marine A U.S. Army helicopter unit h Vietnamese storage areas. Division and the nerve center and South Vietnamese irregu-caves, bunkers and artillery ifor allied combat operations iars uncovered two recoilless ri-;; sites. One aim was to w.pe out I along the DMZ. ties, 130 shells for them, 92 rock-enemy big guns that have been Despite 3.656 missions over els. 122 mortar rounds, 160 pis-. !steadily hammering U.S. com-North Vietnam’s southern pan-lols. *0 antipersonnel mines..bat bases and supply lines just handle by smaller fighter-bomb-;small arms ammunition and H »al below the eastern Bank of the ers in June-an average of 122 a!boxes of medical supplies. in~ DMZ and firing at allied war-lday-US. intelligence sources! Military spokesmen said 25 iships offshore Another objec-,say the enemy is pouring more enemy sampans and 600 pounds £gltive was to stem the increasingjsupplies and troops into South of rice were destroyed.
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Mitchell Daily Republic
Mitchell, South Dakota, US
Tue, Jul 02, 1968
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