General Vo Nguyen Giap sent a telegram clarifying the mission of attacking enemy airports.

On April 17, 1975, General Vo Nguyen Giap sent a telegram to the Ho Chi Minh Campaign Command, clarifying the mission of attacking enemy airports. The battle at Xuan Loc-Long Khanh was fierce.

On April 17, 1975, General Commander-in-Chief Vo Nguyen Giap sent telegram No. 58B/DK to the Ho Chi Minh Campaign Command, stating: “The mission of attacking Bien Hoa, Tan Son Nhat, and Can Tho airports has a great effect, paralyzing the enemy air force and quickly reducing their morale and fighting ability… It is necessary to check the plan to attack Bien Hoa airport, quickly prepare to deploy firepower to attack Tan Son Nhat airport. Regarding Can Tho airport… study to increase firepower… because this airport is becoming increasingly important to the Saigon defense plan as well as the US-puppet evacuation plan”.

From April 14 to April 17, 1975, in Binh Thuan, the enemy troops in Binh Thuan Sub-region tried their best to resist the attacks of Regiment 812 of Military Region 6. Many fierce battles took place here. On the direction of Route 8, on the night of April 17, Battalion 200C developed an attack to destroy all enemy troops occupying the Ta Don high point, the last stronghold in the northeast of Phan Thiet.

In Phan Thiet, at 5:00 p.m. on April 17, 1975, the vanguard of the 2nd Corps led by the 18th Regiment (325th Division) began marching to attack the enemy and liberate Phan Thiet town.

Discovering our troops were advancing, the enemy used planes and gunboats to attack the marching formation, causing us some casualties. The fighting here was quite fierce both in the direction of the leading force and in the following units.

On the night of April 17, 1975, the enemy used ships to land several commando companies in Tuy Phong district (north of Phan Thiet) to contact the remnants of the 3rd Airborne Brigade on Gio mountain and local enemy forces to block and attack our troops. The 325th Division sent a part of infantry and reconnaissance to search and capture all enemy troops.

At the Xuan Loc-Long Khanh front, on April 16 and 17, 1975, the forward command post of the 3rd Army Corps of the Republic of Vietnam in Trang Bom organized a counterattack with a large force of armor, artillery and fighter aircraft. The battle took place fiercely at Hung Nghia and Hill 122. The 6th Division and the 95th Regiment completely destroyed a battalion, captured more than 100 enemies, and pushed the enemy back to Bau Ca.

At the same time, the Signal Corps organized training for hundreds of command and technical officers on policies for newly liberated areas and issues that needed to be known about the enemy's information system. At the same time, the Corps also organized takeover teams to rush to the battlefields.

NDO

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