The Vietnam War, This Week, The Evening Sentinel, Carlisle PA
Vietnam War Weekly Front Pages
29 August 1965 – 4 September 1965
The Evening Sentinel, Carlisle PA
Sixty-eight.
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B-52 bombers of the US Strategic Air Command may soon attack Communist targets in South Vietnam daily. Spokesmen disclosed that five B-52 raids had been flown in the past six days. Two American planes were lost Sunday in air operations on both sides of the 17th parallel. An Air Force F-105 Thunderchief was shot down over North Vietnam and the pilot was presumed captured after bailing out. The pilot of a prop-driven Air Force reconnaissance plane was killed in a collision over south Vietnam.
On the ground, Communist guerrillas launched several attacks over a wide area late Sunday and Monday, including an assault Sunday in which two government outposts were overrun 55 miles southeast of Saigon. Airborne reinforcements reoccupied the outpost several hours later, but there was no report of the Vietcong casualties. Government casualties were said to be “light to moderate.”
A Vietcong terrorist exploded a grenade inside a US military housing compound on Tuesday night, inflicting what a spokesman called “light” casualties on Americans living there. The US spokesman said the grenade was lobbed over the wall of the housing compound near the headquarters of the American Assistance Command in midtown Saigon. The explosion came shortly after US Strategic Air Force B-52 bombers from Guam executed a one-two punch on suspected Vietcong strongholds in widely separate parts of South Vietnam – the first twin B-52 raid of the war.
Sixty-eight Americans had been killed in Vietnam in the two-week period ending last Saturday, the heaviest losses of the war for American forces. The figure included 59 Marines previously reported killed in the Chu Lai victory. A spokesman reported that the Vietcong had lost 580 killed and 120 captured the week ending 28 August. The week before Vietcong losses were set at 1,010 dead – a record total of 1,590 for the two-week period. The figure included 599 killed by the Marines at Chu Lai.
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