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(a) C'I"NPACFL-T ltr P112.-i 5750 ser 11692 of 2 October 1967 (1) coastal Surveillance Force Suminazy (2) River Patrol Force Siimnary (3) Riverine Assault Force Sizmrary (14) Naval Advisory Group Strinay Selected Psychological Operations (5) 6 us1N Statistical Summary ~7) U111/VIMC Statistical StnmiarY___(8) WEN Civic Action Statistical Summary
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1. In accordan~e vith reference (a), enc1lsiwes (1) through (8) are submitted. 2. The data contained in enclosures (6), (7) and (8) is based on informiation available this date, Any adjustments to ericlosures () (7) and (8) vd.1l be reflected in June's Historical Supplement, J. W. THOMPSON Flag Secretary Copy to: CC94USNACV (Hist. Branch,, SJS) CNO (Op-09B91S) Director of Navrl History
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1jNCIASIEUE
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During June MARKET T3E patrol unite continued to maintain high levels of effectiveness and routine activ.:ty. Generally
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xceelent weather conditions throughout the month favored a high level of indigenous junk and sampan traffic along the coast
followed by gusty winds with choppy seas during the late evening and night in the northern patrol sectors did reduce the density of fishing activity in that area. Improvements in the enforcement of
restricted areas by Vietnamese authorities has contributed to the effectiveness of KUHET TIME operations in some areas although many
violations continue to occur. The results of June MARKET TIME activity include the detection
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hulled vessels detected transiting MARKET Tfl(E areas during the month, all of which were determined to be on innocent passage. MARKET TMi{ units also participated in 18 ground operations by
providing exiltration/infiltration patrols and naval gunfire support, In additio-n, 334 naval gunfire missions were carried out for planned
haras=ment and interdiction, targets of opportunity, to 30 hostile fire incidents. and in response
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indicated 47 enemy were killed in these actions with an additional 78 estimted as probably killed. With all types of MARKS.i TIME units engaged in conducting the
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of her missions between 2 and 7 June USCOC AITUROSCC.MM, (VMC 68) killed at least 10 Viet Cong, destroyed P31 Junks and sampans, destroyed
28 structures, and dam.rged numerous other craft and structures in Viet Gong supply poLnts and rest areas located along the coe4;t within a few
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the same area 'irth at least 9 Viet Cong61 killed (40 probable), 25 junks and sampans destroyedj, '14 structures destroyed# and many other craft and "structures damaged. "Inthe Second Coastal Zone POF 62 participated in a ground operation by the 1st Regiment of the Korean Tiger Division in a mountainous area on the coast about 18 miles north of Qui Nhon. In this operation mortar
fire from PCF 62 along uwith Korean artillery accounted for 5 Viet Cong *
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Mouantains by5 the T3ger Division from~ the 18th throug~h the 27th of the r~outh ?4AMMKT TIME PC? 'emaintained a tight exfitration patrol of about 15 rdles of the coast Line and fired iseveral naval gunfire and Illuninatim3
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the VWp totaled 127 kiled, 21 captured, and nume~rousn weaponls and xminmition capturede At, a plwdsmately 01.20 on the 16th PCV 19 on patrol near the coast Just southi of the 17th parallel reported it waim receiving rocket shore five. Cormunicatiozis vith the Swift boat were lost shortly thereafter
and USCOC POINT DD~w iAich was craising nearby reported observing two rockets finrd at the craft v*ith one near miss a-nd a direct hit. The
Svift boat disappeared frrzn tho POINT BMW's radar iLn about two iuinutes an sh. was proceeding to the acene. Twio seriously wounded suvivors
wort rescued by the Coast Gumad cutter and five other llxvmen fror PC? 19 were lost. Later the P03IIT DUM,
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destroying others on twhe grounds however no hard evidence of the presence of N~orth Vietninese helicopters has been discovered, Report's of helicopter sightings at night b7 XW0IT T' ?, units and Marirze observers ashore have continued throughout the rest of the ronth. is stil being investigated by the Seventh Fleet. The incident
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CONFIDENIfAL RIVER PATROL FORCE SUMAARY "ume 19bt6 In early dune, intelligence indicated that the Viet Cong planned tmoesea-cients oftheir exstn forces .in IV orps to supports theier continuing pressure on the Capital Miita~ry District (CIO.) Cholon and its environs, of' Saigon!/
As the month continued indications of increased GAME 1,.ARDEN u2nits continued their
daily round-the-clock patrols and were poised to mreet any new ene~r threats, EnenV ha/rassinent decreased on t-he Bassac; however,$ adbushes
continued on the central 1b Tho and upper Ham Luong rivers. In the RS3SZ there was a definite rise in the nurber of intidentsinvolving PERs,9 aircraft and evading saIpans. ',.here there had been an
average of' five incidenits per month for the past three months the number increased three-~fold. To counter tte Viet Cong movement toward,
and the enezry threat against., the C1D 3AXE WAPMEiN opera~licn~s -were extended to provide one river section cf P"Ms to patrol t'he Don,,- 1Lai River between liha Be and the Long Blinh Brid-e northeast of Saivon.
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P13R creum~en were killed in Lt-o separate firefights-when their patrol craft were attacked by enemy gunneers. one of the engagements
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exhibited nore aggressiveness and conducted zn.ore frequent oper-tions against the Viet Cong. In one instance, on 21 June, with PER's aiid Enclosure (2) COINFIDENTIAL
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Navy armed helicopters providing cover suppcrt, 90 PItlt 's stormed a Viet Con& prison camp 8 mi4es west of Long Toan, near t he mouth of
The whirlvind attcik culminated in the release of Unfortunately, as the tide of the battle
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29 Vietnamese prisoners.
turned against the Viet Cong prison guards they fired on the prisoners killing four and wounding eight. On 6 June a PBR patrol received heavy automatic weapons fire from four eneiy positions on Tau Dinh Island on the lcomr Bassae. The patrol was unable to suppress the fire that killed GYM2 Mitchell
A. WEMTZ, USN and seriously wounded one other. "' " '.
On 8 June PBR 750, while on patrol on the IV Tho River about 2 miles southeast of Cal Ba, came under heavy rocket end automatic weapons
fire. The boat was hit by a B.40 rocket, wounding three creumen and On 21 June, PBR 750 was once again the target
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that had evaded up a smaill, canal off the M4y Tho River.
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boat cleared the canal, with the sampan in tgw, the Viet CGong unleashed
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a voluminous hail of rocket fire from ambush. hits on the boE.t setting it ablaze.
and headed fo-.. the beach and four more accurately fired B-40 rockets hit
the disabled craft. As PBR 723, the cover boat, returned the enemy atto-
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pushing the -ounded crewmen from the burning boat. Ie cover boat .
moved in and picked up t.o wounded PER sailors, one 1itnamese national
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"PER's and four Navy helicopters were on the scene in .tout 10 minutes and the eneny fire was suppressed. Three crewmen weze still missing
and an intense search was initiated by nine additional PE~s and one hundred Vietnamese PF troops. The charred body of BMI Scott G. IELPH,
USN i.as found in the cockpit of PER 750 that had burned to the water-
line.
recovered from the water later that evening; however, the body of GM.2
Casualties inflicted
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of Sa Dec killed 18 Viet Gong, wounded 12 and destroyed 6 sampans. On 25 June PERs and "Seawolves" teamed up and wounded 18 Viet
Cong in an action initiated when the Viet Cong attacked a PER patrol
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sampans, about 5 miles north of Phu Vinh, killing eight Viet Cong. eMeanwhile, on the Bassac River, a SEAL platoon killed four Viet Cong and detained eight others in a raid on a small village on Dung Island, 6 miles east of Long Phu. On 29 June SEAls patrolling on an island on
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The early days of June were characterized by veo-y light and sporadic contact with the enew, which was in sharp contrast to the bitterls Another MRF mile-
otone was attained when a third river assault squadron commencsd combat operations. RAS 13, operating from the Mha -Be Naval Base in Gia Dinh
Province, received its baptism under fire when it engaged the enemy on 16 June 6 diles southtwst of Nha Be in the Rung Sat Special Zone. Caru-
alties in the HRF vere at the 1orest level since November 1967 as U. S. Navy forces had 24 wounded but no fatalities while U. S. Anry forces suffered 15 killed and 81 wounded. nonth were 147 killed. Cumulative eneny casualties for the
On 10 June riverine units of TF 117 Tere enraged in three separate clashes with the Viet Cong near Ben Tre in Kien Hoa Province. The most
violent fighting took place just prior to sunset after riverine units landed three companies of the 4/&7th Infantry Battalion at beaches on the Tai Phu Stream, h riles southeast of Ben Tre, Three troop-laden
eneq sampans were detected trying to cross the narrow streem and were
destroyed,
Sixteen Viet Cong vere killed in this action, ihile Navy Earlier, in a pro-dawn fire
fight along the Giao Hoa Canal 5 miles northeast of Ben Tre, the assault craft killed four other Viet Cong -hen one of tho C.
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ambushed rith enerTy rockets and automatic w.2apozrs froiz the heavily wooded GRIOUP 4
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engagament. eanwhiles the MRF ssault troops killed an additional
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engagged the Viet Cong in a series of skinmishes about 10 miles west of Can Tho in Phong Dn Prorince, During the five-dcy operation .
(17-21 June) 'Ihe enemy left 82 coimbatants dead while friendly forces had 4 soldiers killed and 38 Anismen and 3 sailors wounded. The 14U units also captured 2 prisoners., 19 weapons and destroyed 39 bunkers.
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SSGILU 1H&IDLING aBWflIM& ROT? I AM&WUL TO FORiGHN ATIOUWAL NAVAL ADVIBItY ORJUP SUJ4ARY During the month the Fleet Comnux1 had an average of 24.5 ships * available ard employed an a-verage of 23.4. Thaes Pips provided 54
under
itary District., The battalions were bitt~erly opsdon the let amd~ 2nd ~ of Jwwe near the Bien Uki Bridge on Lrwte #1 crossing the Saigon River., but, eaierged vic;.orious with a total of 121 enem dead and 7 captured in thos* twD days of figbting. 15 others were wounded. Four Yarines were killed, one drowned and
the Sixth Precinct of Saigon and joined Task Force A., assuming an area
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conitrol of the Arzy of Thu Republic or Vitetnam 21st Division. unit patrols chara(tAeri,.,rd the mounth's act1.viti.es. Oa 10 June the VietrnrmF;
U. S, Navy river craft and assumed exclusive militar7r respons.ibilities that previously were held by U. S. Naval forces. Six of the ')oats are
LCiM%, specially corifigueed landing craft for chain-drag minesweeping. The boats are now ea~oaundad, operated and support~ed by cfficers and zion of the Vietnaiwse Navy and performa the vital job of clearing Mines from the strategic Long Tau River channel to Saigon. The LCK have augmented
the ten operating Vietnareae 1%vy WAISs t~hat have been conducting mine counter-asasure operati~ons on the Long Tau and I}ong iNgai rivers. The other eight river craft are PBRs identical to those utilized by Operation GAE 4iA&19TIi forces. The newly fornmd lYNN River Patrol Group
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other U. S. units on the major rivers of the Delta as important adaitions to the GA11C W4ARDEN efforts to deny the use of strategic waterwajys to the
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officers and three chief patty officers accompanied the hmAnd.piclced,, highly mottivatod vo~lunteer recruits* Since the Tet Offensive the Viet* namese Na~vy Ias been swamped with volunteers and the recruit training centers at Saigon and Mha Be have been overlo-aded, the recruits spending * ~~weeks awaiting training, The recruits selected to attend WSRC San Diego
are all high school graduates, speak some English and at least, half of them,hold 2-year college degrees. Preliminary training in Saigon included
drills seamarnship and swiaming, and a familiarization course in English. At 'IRTO San Usjgo, the recruits receive the same training as American sailors., excapt for clazses which deal wilth strictly U. S. interests such as history, the U. So Code of Conduct and military justice. Besides
providing a pool of qualified men for possible future training at U. S. * Navy scbhools their knowledge and understanding of American sailors will onable tlet to work more closely with their U. S. advisors.
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Psycholgcl andcivcactin operationiq continuxed to be "_actively pursued during the month* The Viet Gong recognizing
" ha inroads being made by the Naval forces continued to intensify their counter-attacks. Forty-two per cent of the broadcasting The majority of the incidents
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and Navy "Seawolves" occurred in the Delta* In one incidents PBRM wounded 1i Viet Cong follodng an attack on a PBR patrol conducting a "psyop" speaker mission six miles east of Vinh Long. * Captured
Viet Conig prisoners, and Hoi Chanhe frequaently stated that in many units troop moral was low due to lack of food and the B-52 bombing raids. The intensification of the Chieu Hoi program was initiated .
to capitalize on the reported Viet Cong morale problems* In the field of civic action US/GVN image building continued with over 12,000 VX patients receiving treatment during IEDCAPS conducted by USN and VNN personnel. In one I1EDCAP operation,,
intelligence was received from villagers on the location of twm arms caches and one Viet Cong defense platoon in the Binh Dai *-'..,-: Secret Zone. During another, villagers provided information of two Intelligence sources reported that an increase.. * J
in Viet Cong pressure on the peninsula east of Qui. 1hon was attributed "toan active program conducted by VMN CG 22 and USN CWSDIV 15, The .
"Viet Cong continued theik attempts to counter medical and refugee "E-nclosure (5)
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relief and other civie actiogi projeut-t ihich have resulted in ftproved relations between USN4 aand VIIN personnel and villagers, On1 1.0 June sipeedinig PB~s m~edically evacuating a pregnant Vietnamese woman to the hospital lost the race to the stork,. The birth of the fourth Viotnuiese baby on a PB1R was vitnessed, Oni a previous incident# in honor
of the PBA sailors there is now one Vietnamese child in the Delta ,6.th the *
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