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There was almost no resistance. Communist guns-75s and 105s-opened up from the north shore seven hours before the deadline set by the ultimatum for unconditional surrender. At 11 p.m., an hour ahead of schedule, shock troops jammed onto river craft and struck across...
...that one believes but never sees, Cambodia's five-year war is an immediate, palpable, personal experience. Take a left Urn at the airport, and five kilometers later you are right at the front lines, where government T-28s drop cluster bombs, gunships fire rockets, and miniguns and 105s endlessly pound away at Communist positions just northwest of the city...
...Bombings, bombings, killing, killing. We cannot be friends with such an inhuman country.' My people cannot be aware of your good traditions or the background of your Revolution. They know you through the B-52s, the AC-130s, the Spookies [gun ships] and the F-111s and F-105s...
...driving former president (1947-64) of the old Republic Aviation Corp. (now a division of Fairchild Hiller Corp.) who set production records during World War II, then led the company from nose-diving postwar sales to profitable production of the F-84 Thunderjets used in Korea and the F-105s flown by the Air Force during the early '60s; following a stroke; in Laramie...
...cover. The fighters were flown from Okinawa to South Korea, where they were kept on "strip alert," ready to go to Banner's aid. Inexplicably, Admiral Johnson did not request the same protection for Pueblo, which was stationed far closer to the Korean mainland. Instead, the F-105s remained on stand-by alert on Okinawa, 900 miles from the hapless spy ship. It was no excuse that, even if the aircraft had been ready to defend Pueblo, Lyndon Johnson might well have refused them permission to take off for the very same reason that he embargoed the Navy...