BIG VIET BATTLE
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SAIGON, September 16.
South Vietnamese Rangers mauled North Vietnamese infantry units on the doorstep of populous Da Nang, killing 114, while losing 17 men in a renewal of heavy fighting, spokesmen announced today, United Press International reported. The Rangers battered soldiers of the North Vietnamese thirty-sixth regiment in a battle that raged until late yesterday 10 miles south of the coastal city of 220,000, 360 miles north of Saigon. Forty-one Rangers were wounded in the biggest battle near Da Nang since the Communists drove to within rifle range of the city’s allied war complex last month. The battle was part of a United States-South Vietnamese drive to crush a suspected Communist build-up south of the key military complex. Allied troops had killed 350 Communists in the area during the last week, spokesmen said.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31786, 17 September 1968, Page 13
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