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A Red talks — and the hunt is on in Vietnam

Photos by Henry Chang, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, May 24, 1963

Henry Chang / ©S&S

South Vietnamese soldiers search in waist-deep water for Viet Cong after a prisoner told them more guerrillas were hiding in the area.

Henry Chang / ©S&S

South Vietnamese soldiers with a captured Viet Cong guerrilla at the plain of Reeds, near the Cambodian border.

Henry Chang / ©S&S

A Viet Cong prisoner is brought for questioning by the South Vietnamese army.

Henry Chang / ©S&S

One of three Viet Cong taken prisoner by South Vietnamese soldiers in a sweep at the Plain of Reeds.

Henry Chang / ©S&S

A South Vietnamese soldier gives a Viet Cong prisoner a cigarette.

VINH LOI, Vietnam — Tough Republic of Vietnam Army troopers making a sweep through the communist-infested Plain of Reeds ran into a bit of luck when they captured a talkative Viet Cong guerrilla.

During interrogation he told where other communists were hiding and the dangerous job of flushing out the Viet Cong from the tall grass began.

The troopers were from the 2d Bn., 11th Regt., 7th Inf. Div., and their U.S. Army advisers, 1st Lt. Herbert W. Blackwell and SFC Andrew Chapman, went along on the hunt.

The infantrymen fanned out and slipped through the tall grass, taking the hiding Reds by surprise. Stalking the communists is dangerous and a moment's carelessness could cost the trooper or adviser his life.

The action took place within eight miles of the Cambodian border.