Word: 100s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plunged on only to find itself entrapped inside a horseshoe-shaped line of well-fortified Indian positions. Recoilless rifles, mounted on jeeps or dug into ground emplacements, poured a heavy fire into the massed Pakistani tanks. Support fire rained down from Indian 3.7 howitzers. With the temperature in the 100s, the buttoned-down tanks were like ovens; the dust clouds raised by the explosions blinded the tankers, which milled about like a frightened herd...
Ready to Go. The President himself eschewed words, confined himself to action orders. For the first time, U.S. pilots and crewmen in U.S. B-57s and F-100s swept out in repeated sorties against Viet Cong emplacements in South Viet Nam. This time there was no talk of Americans being in South Viet Nam on a mere "advisory" basis...
...Sweeney Jr., commander of the U.S. Tactical Air Command-aboard to direct the massive protective operation. In the air, each of the three 707s was picked up by a swarm of highflying jet F-105s armed with "Catling" guns able to fire 6,000 shots a minute, F-100s with rockets and cannons, F-4Cs with the deadly Sidewinder missile, F-104s and Navy F-4Bs with Sidewinders and cannon, and F-101s, F-102s and F-106s with Falcon air-to-air rockets...
Squadrons of supersonic F-100s and F-106s zoomed into Florida's Patrick and MacDill Air Force Bases. In the Caribbean were 10,000 Marines who had been about to go on maneuvers. McNamara ordered to active duty 24 troop carrier squadrons of the Air Force Reserve-more than...
Ultimately, however, Impulsora hopes to turn out 15,000 to 20,000 Mexican-produced Borgward PP 100s and Isabellas each year. In the meantime, the new consortium expects to pick up change by selling spare parts to owners of the thousands of German-made Borgwards still in circulation all around the world...