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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1969
Page
4
U S military advisers report the Viet Cong have increased forces in the III Corps area around Saigon to about 65 000 with 20 000 to 39 000 as assault troops and several thousand bases in Cambodia. Allies field roughly 50 000 combat infantrymen nearby.
UPI reports 41 North Vietnamese troops killed and two Marines dead with 10 wounded in a three hour bunker battle atop a 6000 foot ridgeline near the A Shau Valley. Marines seized two 152mm artillery pieces, a first for the war, during Operation Dewey Canyon.
Weekly U.S. casualty report ending Feb 15 lists 197 killed in action and 3100 wounded. Since Jan 1 1961 total wounded 700792 and 31789 killed in the same period. Also notes World War I and Korea totals and mentions Tet holiday easing casualty updates.
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