27 August A predawn Viet Cong mortar attack on the city of Can Tho killed 66 persons and wounded 227, including five US troops. The shelling was part of a series of coordinated attacks around the country. Officials believed the attacks were the beginning of a Viet Cong attempt to show the South Vietnamese that their government and the allied forces cannot provide security and that it would be dangerous for them to try to vote in the national elections schedulede for Sunday, 3 September. The shelling was aimed primarily at the US military compound, and it is believed that strong winds forced some of the shells off target onto a Vietnamese military hospital.
The well coordinated barrage of more than 100 rounds of 83mm mortar and 75mm recoilless rifle fire lasted only 10 minutes. Several of the rounds tore through the Vietnamese hospital compound. Thirteen Vietnamese were killed in the hospital and 38 were wounded. Some of the patient victims were soldiers. Others who died and were wounded were family members of the soldiers, many of them children. The family members were staying at the hospital with the patients, as is often the custom of the Vietnamese.
Seven enemy positions believed to be where the barrage came from were discovered by US Forces south of the city across the Can Tho River.
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