Pacific Stars and Stripes information
for NVA helicopters
For date 680621
Quang Tri Province, I Corps, South Vietnam
Location, DMZ
Description: 21Jun68-More NVA Copters Reported
SAIGON (S&S) - The U.S. Mission said Wednesday it had received additional reports of North Vietnamese helicopter sightings Tuesday night in the southern half of the Demilitarized Zone and just south of the buffer zone in Quang Tri Province. The reports came from what a spokesman called "our reporting officials" in I Corps, but he said there would be no official statement on whether these reports are accurate until an investigation has been completed. The investigation has been going on since the first reports Sunday. "We are in receipt of reports of helicopter sightings. I'm not lending any credence to these reports at this time," he said. There was no report of any exchange of fire in the latest sightings. As with the other sightings, these were made at night with radar. The spokesman said he could not estimate how many copters had been spotted. Gen Creighton W. Abrams, U.S. military commander in Vietnam, and Gen Cao Van Vien, chief of South Vietnam's joint general staff, flew to the northern war zone Tuesday, the Associated Press said. Vien said in Hue, according to AP, "We know that the North Vietnamese have helicopters which can carry missiles." He would not comment on the results of the investigation of reported copter sightings. An Associated Press writer reported speculation that the enemy was ferrying in Soviet Styx missiles to attack naval craft offshore. The news service added that military sources in Washington said there is no evidence to suggest that the North Vietnamese have received any Styx missiles. The Israeli destroyer Elath was sunk last year by three of the 20-foot long Styx missiles fired by the Egyptians.
Comments: GEN Abrams, Creighton W.; MACV CG; ;
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