European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 enemy uses Clas bait the stars and stripes Allied troops kill 250 Viet i i us j.ir.1 inf Nova Fin it Saigon up . An South vietnamese forces tues Day killed an estimated 250 Vietcong troops trying to join the Battle of Saigon. In one Bat Lethe Viet Cong used a wounded american Soldier As bait for five hours. ,. A s 9th inf div soldiers killed More than 200" guerillas Mon Day night and tuesday in one Battle 38 Miles Southwest of the capital. It was in this action that the Viet Cong held the capture american and shot every person who tried to Rescue him. The americans lost 36 dead and 62 wounded in this Battle. The group fighting began when Aki up of 60 americans landed by helicopter in a Bramble patch10 feet from a Viet Cong Bunker Complex. The communists Hel their fire till the troops landed then opened up with Small armsand automatic weapon fire. One american was wounded in the leg just in front of a Bun Ker maj. Zeb Bradford said they either killed or wounded five of our men trying to reach him. Finally he said they shot him in the head just before  said the wounded Man Lay in front of the Bunke for five hours screaming for and that every time Heto move the communists help would shoot him again in t n e arms or , the communist command sent fresh troops int Saigon tuesday on top of the heaviest shelling of the War against the capital District. . Sources conceded that the troops certainly could keep the fighting going for quite a  Cong near Saigon new fighting broke out Only three Miles from the i a Miles North of the inde tial Palace. Intel ii Pendency Palace in the heart of had estimated there w to inde t Saigon while government forces were battling for the fifth consecutive Day against other troops in the Western part of the capita land on the northeastern fringes. The fighting on the Northeast was 2l/ 2 Miles from the heart of Saigon. In the Western Section of the capital government forces were still trying to Root out rocket fir ing and sniping enemy troops holed up in a residential area 40 guerrillas holed infect or reported there enemy in the area. In another development spokesmen said Viet 2 a wrists in the past a Loon.  Vietnam it raised to 9,370 tto killed and to 19,640 the wounded since Jan. 1. Fighting in the Saigon left 115,562 persons Homes divers find Hulk May be German sub Norfolk a. A Hulk found off Cape Henry by divers Hunting for the missing submarine scorpion May be the German submarine u-548, destroyed by . Warships april 30, 1945, eight Days before be  submarine pargo detected the Hulk last Friday 70 mile East Northeast of Cape Henry. Divers descended 180 feet to the Ocean floor from the submarine Rescue ship sunbird. They re ported the Hulk was about 250 feet  of the divers chief machinist s mate Ronald c. Hall told capt. John Caruso a physician aboard the sunbird that the barnacle encrusted sub appeared to be in an upright Posi Tion and partly embedded in the Ocean floor. Sleek Craft his visibility was 40 or 50 per cent Caruso said and he said he could make out a Long sleek Craft with what appeared to be sail like configuration on top and double Rod like objects toward the front which he said appeared to him like 20mm gun  told me the Hull went Back As far As he could see an when he approached it it appeared to be like a vertical Wallof steel about 40 feet High. He said he banged his Hel met on it and kicked it with his Boot and found it was Metal. Hews unable to read any Mark Ings on the  description fit although Navy officers at Norfolk declined to speculate on whether the Hulk is the u-548, Hall s description of it fits their a submarine Type to which the u-548 belonged. That Type was 240-feet Long 22-feet abeam and armed with deck guns. It carried a Crew of 5officers and 46 men. Only one German submarines known to have been sunk off the Virginia coast during world War ii. Mrs. Theda Bassett director of the submarine museum at new London conn., said Ger Man and . Naval records show the u-548 was destroyed by four . Warships april 30, 1945. 1j11aj., j. Ilaw 9 a a v " i no Mandy Warhol Given 50-50 Chance Johnson ask v. _ 9