BACKGROUND ON 31 JANUARY ATTACK AGAINST TAM KY CITY, QUANG TIN PROVINCE

Created: 2/2/1968

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SUBJECT: BACKGROUND Ot)ANUARY ATTACKNST TAM KY- ' QUANG TIN

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the NOTATIONS" were* CAUTIOUS" AGfl INST VtARIVNG BLACK CLOTHES AND SIGNAL PLAHS AND TIMES CERTAIN ELEMENTS, SUCH AS SAPPER UNITS, WERE TO carry out THEIR TASKS. INCLUDEDKETCH OF the LINES OF INFILTRATION for .theETTERS TAXEN FROMho later DIED, refer TO the hardships SUFFERED FROM UHITED STATES BOMBING and MOURN FRIEflDS WHO hadILLED. ONE WRITER -says HE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE an OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE REVESGE for THOSE KILLED UNJUSTLY BY UNITED STATES AGGRESSORS. (FIELDHE. VCIGH KILLED IN ACTION RATIO DURING THIS ATTACK .heavy damage IN subsequent

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PRU CAM? WAS MINIMAL. THE ATTACK BEGAN ATHENTELY TWO 3ATTALI0NS Or VC SUPPORTED' UNKNOWN NUMBER OF LOCAL VC "COMPANIES ATTACKED .THE -QUANG-TIN PROVINCE HEADQUARTERS COMPOUND UNDER COVERORTAR BARRAGE. ONE BATTALION OF VC ATTACKED FROM THE NORTHWEST, STRIKING'AT THE PRU COMPOUND AND AN ARVN COMPANY ON COMPOUND'S EAST FLANK. THE ARVN COMPANY SOON 'WITHDREW TO THE PROVINCIAL INTERROGATION CENTER, LEAVING THE FLANK OPEN..

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