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Marines Repulse North Vietnamese

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) SAIGON, March 6. North Vietnamese troops, trapped in a small valley near Quang Ngai, about 300 miles north-east of Saigon, tried to smash through United States Marine positions early today.

But the Marines repulsed the attack and more than 500 were reported dead.

Trying to break out of the trap, the Hanoi troops, originally numbering more than 2300, used machine-gun, mortar and small arms fire. The Marines were reinforced by two extra companies flown in by helicopter. At the same time it was reported that MiG jets had made their first firing passes of the war on American planes blasting a Soviet-built missile site near Hanoi. An American military spokesman said five Vietnamese MiGl7 jets went into action against American Air Force jets. North Vietnam said later that four of the American aircraft were shot, down. Three were jets and one a pilotless

high-altitude reconnaissance plane. A heavy concentration of raids was reported north of

Hanoi, with the rail lines between Hanoi and China's Yunnan Province being cut in 21 places. Roads were cut and cratered in 42 places and 16 bridges were damaged or destroyed during the attacks. North Vietnam protested yesterday to the International Control Commission on Vietnam against “escalating the war by bombing wider areas of North Vietnam.”

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660307.2.139

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31002, 7 March 1966, Page 15

Word count
Tapeke kupu
218

Marines Repulse North Vietnamese Press, Volume CV, Issue 31002, 7 March 1966, Page 15

Marines Repulse North Vietnamese Press, Volume CV, Issue 31002, 7 March 1966, Page 15

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