1.
GV Troops advance through field
0.05

2.
SV Soldier emerges from cover
0.10

3.
GV & SV Troops running and firing in field (3 shots)
0.21

4.
SV Officer beckons APC into attack PAN TO APC arriving (3 shots)
0.42

5.
SV APC firing (3 shots)
0.53

6.
CU Soldier operating machine gun
0.54

7.
GV APC firing at enemy position
0.56



Initials BB/2100 JS/PN/BB/2122



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Background: In the Khmer Republic, government forces trying to re-open Highway Four, the main route to the capital of Phnom Penh from the main seaport of Kompong Som, have run into heavy opposition.

The Communist forces have cut the highway for a stretch of about one and a half miles (2 kms) about twenty miles (32 kms) from the capital.

The Communists are concentrating their attacks on the comparatively dry Highway Four approach to the capital as the country's monsoon waters reach their peak around Phnom Penh and are also attacking the country's third largest city of Kompong Cham, which they want to sue as a rival capital.