SITUATION REPORT ON HOI AN CITY AND QUANG NAM PROVINCE, AS OF 1800 HOURS ON 1 FEBRUARY

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• Collection: Tet Declassified
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00198083
• Document Creation Date: January 28, 2019

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REPORT CLASS
COUNrRY: SOWTH VIETNAM
SUBJECT: SITUATION REPORT ON HOI AN CITY AND QUANG NAM
PROVINCE, AS OF 1800 HOURS ON 1 FEBRUARY
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SOURCE: THIS IS A SITUATION REPORT ON 1 FEBRRARY PREPARED
BY CAS,
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1. IN HOZ AN, QUANG NAM PROVINCE, LOUDSPEAKERS TOLD
PEOPLE OF CURFEW AND OTHER RESTRICTIONS. PEOPLE WERE AD�
HERING TO RESTRICTIONS. THERE WISS NO APPARENT FEELING OF
PANIC, BUT THE PEOPLE WERE NERVOUS AND ACTIVITY PROCEEDED AT
A REDUCED PACE. ROAD BLOCKS RESTRICTED CIVILIAN TRAFFIC.
VIET CONG (VC) WERE IN THE AREA IN VARIOUS DISGUISES, BUT
MOST VC HAD LEFT THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF HOI AN TOWN.
2. DUY ATICEN DISTRICT WAS ATTACKED BY THE VC ON THE
NIGHT OF 31 JANUARY AND THE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS CONTINUED
TO BURN IN THE AFTERNOON OF 1 FEBRUARY. SOME OF THE RESIDENTS
HAD BEEN EVACUATED.
3. IN ROA VANG DISTRICT THE BUDDHISTS CLAIMED THEY HAD
ONE THOUSAND REFUGEES IN NEED OF FOOD, AND TIE AMERICANS WERE
GOING TO LOOK INTO ASSISTANCE FOR THEM ON THE MORNING OF 2
FEBRUARY.
4. CONTACT WITHREVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT CADRE (RDC)
TEAMS WAS LIMITED DURING THE PAST THREE DAYS. TEAMS IN BOA
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VANG AND DIEN BANE DISTRICTS HAD CONTACT WITH THE VC. TEAM 4's
LEADER AND HIS ASSISTANT WERE KIA; TEAM 11 SUFFERED ONE KIA;
TEAM 5, ONE KIA; TEAM 7, ONE KIA; AND TEAM 28 HAD CONTACT AT
0300 ON 1 FEBRUARY BUT RESULTS ARE UNKNOWN. TRAM 7 WAS STILL
ON CAM THANE ISLAND, ABOUT 50 METERS ACROSS FROM THE MARKET
IN HOI AN, WHICH IS CONTROLLED BY THE VC.
5. ONE RALLIER TO THE FIFTY FIRST ARVN BATTALION, ALLEGEDLY
A MEMBER OF THE SECOND NORTH VIETNAM (NVA) DIVISION, ONE OF
THREE VC ELEMENTS =MIEN THAT ATTACKED THS DANANG COMPLEX,
SAID THAT THESE FORCES (UNSPECIFIED) SUFFERED HEAVY CASUALTIES.
HE CLAIMED HE WAS THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF HIS PLATOON, ONE REASON
HE RALLIED. ACCORDING TO HIS STATEMENT THE MISSION OF THE
, THREE UNITS WAS TO ATTACK HOI AN AND DANANG CITY DURING THE
FIRST THREE DAYS OF TIT.
6. FIKLD DISSEM: STATE USMACV XII MAF CORDS
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