SOUTH VIETNAM: U.S.-BUILT CHU LAI AIRBASE OPENED.

Record ID: 230626

  • Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: U.S.-BUILT CHU LAI AIRBASE OPENED.
  • Date: 4th June 1965
  • Summary: 1. GV PAN U.S. AIRMEN AWAIT ARRIVAL OF JETS. 0.05 2. SV & CU SOLDIERS WAIT. 0.14 3. LV PLANE LANDS. 0.21 4. SV AIRMEN ON GROUND. 0.25 5. SV PAN JET LANDS. 0.31 6. LV ANOTHER PLANE LANDS. 0.36 7. LV ANOTHER JET LANDS. 0.39 8. LV PAN PLANES LINED UP ON FIELD. (2 SHOTS). 0.47 9. SV PILOTS OUT OF PLANE, GREETED BY MAJOR-GENERAL COLLINS. 0.52 10. LV PLANE LANDS. 0.56 Initials JRG/S/JH/JM JRG/S/JH/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 19th June 1965 13:00
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  • Location: CHU LAI AIRBASE, SOUTH VIETNAM
  • Country: Vietnam
  • Reuters ID: LVA27L9XDM0IW94NNVIVC0L9PNHN
  • Story Text: AN AIRBASE, BUILT BY AMERICAN MARINES IN SOUTH VIETNAM WAS OPENED ON TUESDAY AT CHU LAI IN QUANG TIN PROVINCE. THE OPENING OF THE BASE, DESIGNED TO BOOST US MILITARY SUPERIORITY, COMES AT A TIME WHEN THERE ARE GROWING REPORTS OF THE INCREASE IN OPERATIONS BY REGULAR NORTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS.

    SO FAR, THE CHU LAI BASE CONSISTS OF A RUNWAY AND TEMPORARY BUILDINGS TO HOUSE THE AMERICAN PERSONNEL THERE. THE MAIN BASE INSTALLATIONS WILL BE COMPLETED NEXT MONTH.

    SIX U.S. SKYHAWK JETS FLEW IN TO INAUGURATE THE RUNWAY. THE PILOTS WERE GREETED BY THE COMMANDER OF AMERICAN TROOPS IN THE DA NANG AREA, MAJOR-GENERAL COLLINS.

    IN THE DA NANG AREA ITSELF TODAY (FRIDAY), THE MARINES HAD THEIR FIERCEST ENGAGEMENT SINCE THEY ARRIVED IN SOUTH VIETNAM TEN WEEKS AGO.

    AT THE SAME TIME,A HIGH-RANKING U.S. MILITARY OFFICER REPORTED STRONG EVIDENCE OF NORTH VIETNAMESE REGULAR BATTALIONS OPERATING IN FOUR OTHER AREAS. IN ONE OF THEM YESTERDAY, SOUTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS WERE OUT TO PIECES IN A DOUBLE AMBUSH. ONLY 80 ARE THROUGH TO HAVE SURVIVED OUT OF 350.

    THE OFFICER ALSO SAID THAT THE VIETCONG WERE NOW COMING OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS IN MUCH GREATER STRENGTH THAN EVER BEFORE AND WERE PUTTING A SEVERE STRAIN ON THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT'S RESOURCES.
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