REPORT CLASS .
COUNTRY: SOUTH VIETNAM
SITUATION REPORT INORPS AS0 HOURS ON A, FEBRUARYS
ACQUIRED: VIETNAM, DANANGEBRUARY
SOURCE : THISITUATION REPORT ON FEBRUARY PREPARED
NO MAJOR ENEMY ACTION WAS INITIATED INORPSEBRUARY AS0 HOURS. IN QUANG TRI AN UNCONFIRMED
REPORT STATESORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY REGIMENT (NEAR KHE
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SANH) HAS NOT JOINED IN THE ATTACK ON QUANG TRL; AND INCLUDES OFFICIALS AND NECESSARY ACCOUTREMENTS TO ESTABLISH GOVERNMENT MACHINERY. THB SITUATION CONTINUED TENSE IN HUE, AS FIGHTING CONTINUED AND. MARINE CORPS FORCES VERB NEAHING THE CORDS OFFICES, MAKING SLOW PROGRESS. THE DITADEL AIRPORTWAS IN VIETNAMESE HANDS, BUT NOT YET OPERATIVE. THE PEOPLE IN QUANG NO AI DID NOT APPEAR TO BE TAKING SIDES, THERE FEARED THE VIET CONG. END SUMMARY.
REGIMENT OFTH NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY (NVA) DIVISION HAS NOT YET JOINED TBE ATTACK AGAINST QUANG TRI. ALLEGEDLY, THB REGIMENT TRAVELED VITH OFFICIALS AND THE ACCOUTREMENTS TO ESTABLISH GOVERNMENTAL MACHINERY. UNITS THAT APPROACHED FROM
THE NORTH DURING THE ATTACK CAHRIED CIVILIAN CLOTHE-** (COMMENT:
IT IS NOT KNOWN IF THIS REPORT WAS BASED ON RUMOR OR INFORMATION FROM AN ESTABLISHED AGENT. EBRUARY III MAF OB LISTING STATESALLIER,ASTER SERGEANT, FROM THE 6BTHOPTH DIVISION SAID THATTH LEFT THANH HOA PROVINCE, NVN, IN7 AND ARRIVED IN THE KHE SANII AREA IN JANUARY)
ENEMY FIRE CONTINUED IN QUANG TRI PROVINCE, BUT NO MAJOR EFFORT HAD BEEN INITIATED AS THE SECURITY SERVICE ESTIMATED THAT THERE WERE STILL ABOUT SO VIET CONG (VC) SAPPERS CADRES IN QUANG TRI CITY.
ACCORDINGHIBU HOI (OPEN ARMS)OMMANDER SHOT AND KILLED ONE OF HIS WOUNDED WHO WOULD HAVE TO
BE EVACUATED BY STRETCHER, PRESUMABLY BECAUSE BE WAS TOOTO LEAVE BEHIND AND THE ENEMY DID NOT WANT TO BE SLOWED DOWN. IN ANOTHER INSTANCE IT APPEARED THAT AN ENEMY COMMANDER WAS URGING RELUCTANT TROOPS FORWARD. THE ATTACKERS ATTEMPTED TO ROUND UP AND TAKE THE CHIBU HOIS (RETURNEES) IN QUANG TRI CITY WITH THEM, BUT WHEN TEST CAME UNDER FIREL HOIS ESCAPTED.
RECONNAISSANCE UNITS (PRO) IN QUANGACTED SERVED AS REACTION UNITS AND SPED FROM ONE SPOTCLEANING OUT ENEMY ACTIVITY.
6. ELEPHONE CONVERSATION FROM THE USMACV COMPOUND IN THE CITADEL, HUE CITY, THUA THIEN PROVINCE, 0AS OFFICIAL SAID THAT THE SITUATION REMAINED TENSE WITH 8
SMALL ARMS FIBS CONTINUING AROUND THE USMACV COMPOUND. FIGHTING CONTINUED IN THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CITY. THE ROAD FROM PHU BAI TO HUE WAS STILL UNDER SNIPER FIRE. . MARINE CORPS REACTION FORCE POSSIBLY WAS CLOSE TO. CORDS OFFICES BUT WAS MAKING SLOW PROGRESS. CITADEL AIRPORT REPORTEDLY WAS IN ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM (ARVN) HANDS, BUT IT WAS NOT OPERATIVE.
CITY HAS REMAINED QUIETEBRUARY.
DANANG POLICE WERE DIGGING EMPLACEMENTS AND SEEKING MACHINE GUN POSITIONS IN THB CITY, WHICH THEY SAIDOUTINE ACTION TO IMPROVE SECURITY. THEY HAD RECEIVED NO REPORTS OF AN IMPENDING
ATTACK.
AN, QUANG NAM PROVINCE, ALSO WAS QUIET ON 4THE PROGRESSIONAIRLY NORMAL DAY. MORE ANDWERE ON THE STREETS, WEELDRESSED, AND MOVING ABOUT.
SHOPS WERE MORE AND MORE OPEN. ONE ACT OF TERRORISM OCCURRED WHEN TWO VC DRESSED IN POPULAR FORCE <PF) UNIFORMSONDAF SOLDIER WALK TNG IN HOI AN. EXTENT OF INJURY IS NOT KNOWN. THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF PANIC OR RESENTMENT AGAINST THE AMERICANS OR THE GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM (GVN). NOR WERE THERE SIGNS OF ATTEMPTS AT POLITICAL DEMONSTRATIONS ON THE PART OF BUDDHISTS OR THE VIETNAM NATIONALIST PARTY HE MANY REFUGEES IN THE CITY WERE GATHERED AT SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES AND BEING CARED FOR BY SOCIAL AND WELFARE ORGANIZATIONS.
THE CURFEW CONTINUED EBtt EN FORCE FOR FROM00 HOURS.
THE SITUATION CONTINUED QUIET IN TAM KY CITY. QUANG TIN PROVINCE,EBRUARY.
THE SITUATION ALSO REMAINED GENERALLY QUIET IN THE AREA OF QUANG NGAI CITYEBRUARY. ACCORDING TO INFORMATION RECEIVED BY THE ADVISOR TO THE REVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT CADRE PROGRAM IN QUANG NGAI:
TACTICAL BATTALIONS THAT REMAINED AROUNDCITY INCLUDEDH AND BIST LOCAL FORCES, THEFORCE, AND AN UNIDENTIFIED LOCAL FORCE FROM DUC PRO
LOSSESEBRUARY HERE ESTIMATED AT MORE INCLUDING LOSSES FROM ACTION IN SOUTHERN QUANG TIN.
ARE RUMORS, OR SPECULATION, AMONG THETHE AMERICANS WILL NOT HELP QUANG NGAI. (COMMENT: RUMORS CAN BE CREDITED BY TBE PEOPLE CANNOT BESINCE AMERICANS CERTAINLY ASSISTED IN OUSTING THETHEIR INFILTRATION OF THE CITY.) THERE ARETHE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF THE VC, BUT THEY ARE NOT
VC GENERALLY BYPASSED THE RD TEAMS. SOMEMOVED IN CLOSE TO DISTRICT COMPOUNDS TO SUPPORT LOCAL
PRUS HAVE BEENOOD ACCOUNT, KEEPING
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CASUALTIES LOW (TWO WOUNDED IN ACTION) AND DISRUPTING THE ENEMY. ALL DISTRICT ARE HAPPY WITH THE PRC EFFORT.
F. HOW THE VC GOT IN ANDOUT OF QUANG NGAI CITY IS STILL UNKNOWN.
10. FIELD DISSEM: STATE USMACV CORDS III UAF 7TH AF USARV COMNAVFORV USAID DIR/JUSPAO (MR. ZOBTHIAN ONLY) CINCPAC ARPAC PACAF (ALSO SENT SAIGON)
REPORT GROUP I
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