STATISTICS FOR PRESS CONFERENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-293-5-14-6
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 18, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: THE PRESIDENT
FROMi
SUBJECT:
HENRY A. KISSING
Statistics for Preis Conference
During your press conference Friday you may want to draw on the
following information.
U. S. Combat Deaths in Southeast Asia
Weekly
1971 197
45 (week ending 101 (corresponding
March 13) week)
Six Week* of Operation 393 (Jam. 31 - $76 (comparable period)
March 13)
A year ago U. S. combat deaths throughout Southeast Asia were about
double what they have ben during the Laotian operation.
erns KIA in
Laos operation - 10,013
Cambodian operation - 3, 666
More than 10, 000 North Vietnamese soldiers have been reported
killed in the Laos operation.
suffered significant casualties.
Six of the enemy regiments opposing the South Vietnamese have
Enemy materiel Lossees
ARMY review completed.
Although the primary objective of this operation has not been to destroy
enemy war material, the following enemy losses have been reported:
More than 4, 100 individual and 1, 300 crow-servd weapons.
-- More than 500.000 rounds of ammunition, including an
estimated 3.500 large rocket rounds.
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More than 3 million pounds of food.
-- Nearly 100 tanks (99).
Nearly 300 trucks/vehicles.
This information will be updated for you on Friday prior to the press
conference.
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March 17, 1971
Henry:
on Howe has prepared the attached on a
contingency basis for the Proxi4ont's
press conference. You might wish to send
it to him now (he usually asks for this kind
of # ormation hate in the game) We will
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