A Truce at Mu
Gia February 1967
Periodic truces in the early
years halted the bombing of North Vietnam but did not stop combat in Laos.
President Johnson hoped the truces would lead to a cessation of
hostilities and the end of the war. The North Vietnamese used the truces to
try to win the war. A big
difference that helped us lose the war.
The North Vietnamese used the
truces to move large quantities of warmaking supplies from the docks at
Haiphong to truck parks near the Laotian border.
Cloudy weather limited much of the aerial reconnaissance during the
1967 TET truce. This pictures show some of 130 trucks photographed on 9
February just north of the border with Laos in the Mu Gia Pass.
These trucks are in there same area where Nail FAC
Captain Lucius Heiskell was shot down on 6 February 1967. He was picked up by
a brave Jolly Green crew, then went down with three of them only hours before
the truce began.
