BOMBING SORTIES
10 Per Cent Reduction (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyrights SAIGON, Oct. 13. American forces, using fighter-bombers, artillery and helicopter gunships, killed 38 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers in three engagements on the approaches to Saigon yesterday. Reports of the fighting came as diplomatic sources in Saigon disclosed that last week the White House ordered a 10 per cent reduction in the number of Stratofortress bomber sorties in South Vietnam, in response to a fourweek lull in Communist battle activity. Stratofortresses flew five missions over South Vietnam late yesterday and early to day, dropping at least 450 tons of bombs on suspected Communist concentrations in three provinces which border Cambodia north of Saigon.
In the last nine days, the United Military Command ordered 54 heavy bomber missions over South Vietnam, compared with 82 in the previous nine days.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32118, 14 October 1969, Page 17
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