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08:17:38 McNamara w/ pointer to map; holds up Chinese machine gun. Reporters listen as he points to photographs of bridges bombed by USA.
08:18:11 SOF: “I can’t be too specific or accurate in estimating the size of that battalion; I would guess its on the size of 400 or 500 men. As to its significance, I think it is primarily significant in indicating that the North Vietnamese have used up, or dried up, the source of individual fillers who could be recruited, trained & sent back to fight in South Vietnam. And they are now having to call upon the regular units of their forces for that purpose. And this is understandable. I believe I am correct in saying that in the past 4 1/2 years the Viet Cong, the Communists, have lost 89,000 men, killed, in South Vietnam; not all these men have been infiltrated from the North but an important number have been. With that, plus the expansion of the Viet Cong forces in the South, you can see the heavy drain upon the filler resources in the North & why they have to turn to their regular military units to continue the supply of men over these infiltration routes; a supply that is absolutely essential to them if they are to offset the continuing casualties.”
1965; Vietnam War; Southeast Asia; China; USA; Speech; Press Conference; Justification;
