Battle for Quang Tri Intensifies as NVA Presses Front
Saigon reports the heaviest artillery counterattack in five weeks on Quang Tri province edges, with over 1100 rounds and two ground assaults repelled. Six North Vietnamese and eight South Vietnamese were killed. US air losses include two MiGs shot down and one F-4 downed after SAM hits. four crewmen listed as missing later identified as captured. An American adviser was killed in a helicopter shoot-down. Graves of 130 Communists found southwest of Cai Lay amid air strikes.