Cambodia And South Vietnam: American Tanks And Troops Carriers Leave Cambodia:Soldiers Receive Welcome In South Vietnam From U.S. In a ceremony on Saturday (Dec 16), presided over by South Vietnamese General Nguyen van Minh, a newly-graduated South Vietnamese army tank unit accepted 54 U. THEY ARE? South Vietnam: New South Vietnam Tank Unit Gets 54 U.S. IN SOUTH VIETNAM LAST WEEK 17 UNITED STATES TANKS LANDED AT DA NANG. South Vietnam: United States Tanks Move North Squadron Of F-5a Fighters Arrive For Combat Duty NEWLY-ARRIVED AUSTRALIAN CENTURION TANKS WENT INTO ACTION IN SOUTH VIETNAM THIS WEEK IN SUPPORT OF AUSTRALIAN TROOPS TAKING PART IN "OPERATION PINAROO". South Vietnam: Australian Tanks Support Troops In "Operation Pinaroo". And at that time, the south Vietnamese troops were still a long way from fulfilling President Thieu's pledge to push the North Vietnamese back acrose the Demilitarised Zone. But at the weekend, air-strikes had been limited to targets on the outskirts. One South Vietnamese battalion commander has called for air-raids to flatten the city to neutralise communist opposition. Airborne units were hit by over three-hundred rounds of long-range artillery and mortar fire.įew of Quang Tri's forty-thousand inhabitants are believed still in the city. It was a similar story in the South-western outskirts. The South Vietnamese captured it, but were forced to ?ithdraw after being hit by artillery ?e. Focal point for the fighting was a soccer stadium in the south-eastern edge of the city. Units reaching the city's outskirts - only a matter of hours after this film was shot - also had to repulse ground attacks by North Vietnamese infantry. While the shelling continued, the government troops made no attempt to move into the centre of the city, where North Vietnamese were thought to be entrenched. Then the twenty-thousand men in the government force were pinned down by heavy artillery fire.
But the troops started to encounter fierce resistance as they approached Quang Tri City.Įight North Vietnamese tanks were reported destroyed on the outskirts of the city. Until the weekend, the South Vietnamese advance on the provincial capital - in communist hands since early May - had been going smoothly.
SYNOPSIS: American and South Vietnamese aircraft have been dropping hundreds of tons of bombs in an effort to dislodge North Vietnamese artillery around Quang Tri City. While the shelling continued, the South Vietnamese made no attempt to move into the centre of Quang Tri City, where an unknown number of North Vietnamese are entrenched. But despite the backing of tanks and continuous air strikes, the 20,000 men in the South Vietnamese force have been pinned down on the outskirts by heavy artillery fire.Īmerican bombers dropped hundreds of tons of explosives in an attempt to dislodge North Vietnamese artillery. On Friday (July 7), when this film was shot, government troops were entering the outskirts of the city. All rights reservedīackground: The battle of Quang Tri City, prime target for the South Vietnamese drive into the communist-occupied province south of the Demilitarised Zone, has intensified over the weekend.