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Soldiers Wipe Out Viet Cong Flotilla(c) XV, Times News Service SAIGON — American troops beat of: two attacks in the Mekong Delta Saturday, killing 42 Viet Cong while suffering no casualties themselves.Two armed helicopters shot up Viet Core positions during the fight, met. sank 20 sampans wner. the erern;- attempted to flee downriver under cover of darkness, virtually wiping out one of the attaching units.The clashes near Myth©, 35 miles southwest of Saigon, were the or.lv s me able encounters reported t v U.S. military head* quarters.The fighting broke out just at ter sunset wner. a reinforces Viet Cong platoon of about 40 men attacked a U«S, Ninth Infantry Division platoon of about the same size. The embattled Americans laid down hea-y fire vrhile artillery, armed helicopters and Air Force AC-47 Dragon Ships hit the attacking enemy.After two hours the Viet Cong broke and ran to board about 21 sampans ir the nearby Occidental River. The helicopter gunships raked the sampans with rockets and machine-gun fire, sinking 20 and killing 30 of the Viet Cong.A full company of Viet Cong, about 115 men, then attacked the American positions in the rice country of Longan Province for 40 minutes before they were beaten back with the help again of artillery, gun-bee UtZTYA M, Page A-2li
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Warren Times Mirror and Observer
Warren, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Jun 12, 1967
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