NORTH HIT BY U.S. SHELLING
(N.Z. Press Association —Copuriaht)
SAIGON, February 24.
American forces have begun shelling North Vietnam with long-range artillery based in South Vietnam for the first time in the war, United States Headquarters announced today, according to the Associated Press.
Disclosing this new step In the conflict an American military spokesman said that U.S. artillerymen fired into the de-miiitarised zone and north of it with 175 m.m. guns, the largest in Vietnam, with a range of 20 miles.
The announcement came as tank-led American forces pushed through jungles of War Zone C, 70 miles northwest of Saigon, in the biggest offensive of the war, but they failed to find Communist units of any size.
U.S. troops reported killing 19 Viet 'Cong so far in the newly-launched attack, “Junction City,” and the enemy responded with at least two
mortar shellings of American positions. U.S. headquarters said that American casualties were light in the shellings and in the manoeuvre so far.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31304, 25 February 1967, Page 14
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