VIETNAMESE FREEDOM FIGHTERS REPORT SUCCESSES
In the first nine months of 1963, according to the South Vietnam Liberation Press Agency, the South Vietnam People's Armed. Forces put more than 140,000 enemy troops "out of action," twice the number of 1963, They shot down or damaged 661 aircraft and. liberated nearly 2,000,000 people. .
Gasualties among the American "advisers" of the puppet government were listed as 1,625, more than twice the figure for the entire previous year. 7
"Where the Vietnam freedom fighters get their weapons was ind1cated by the fact that during the nine months they seized 11,770 pieces. from. the puppet government forces.
They destroyed 273 naval craft, “ine luding a 15 ,000-ton aircraft carrier,
They damaged 84 military trains, more than in 1962 and 1963 put ‘together, and 733 military vehicles.
Enemy troops were compelled to withdraw from 1,256 military strongholds and posts.
The freedom fighters destroyed 3,137 "strategic hamlets," ana liberated 196 villages, 505 hamlets and *9 towns, en
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