SAIGON, South Vietnam, March 7 â The United States continued widespread bombing raids today, sending more than 1,000 planes into action against enemy forces In Laos and Cambodia.
The first operation is a new move by 2,000 South Vietnamese near Kompong Trabek, along Route 1, in eastern Cambodia west of Saigon. The drive was directed against what were described as North Vietnamese and Vietcong sanctuaries. The second operation is the larger, continuing one by the South Vietnamese in the Chup PlantationâSnoul area along Route 7 near the Fishhook area northwest of Saigon.
American planes also carried out heavy air strikes around Tchepone, a major North Vietnamese supply shipment point about 25 miles inside Laos on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. South Vietnamese forces captured the town.
The planes also flew in support of Laotian Government troops fighting in northern Laos.
The raids were mounted from at least four bases in Thailand, half a dozen bases in South Vietnam and from carriers of the Seventh Fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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