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...They said, '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...
Whether constitutionally legitimate or not, U.S. bombing was unquestionably helpful in keeping the shaky government of Marshal Lon Nol alive. Night after night, the windows of Phnom-Penh rattled as B-52s and F-111s dropped their loads a few miles away. For the moment, following their recent victories, the Khmer insurgents seemed to have halted their attack on the capital-partly because of the U.S. bombing but also to give their overextended supply lines a chance to catch up with them...
...some nights, Phnom-Penh residents were kept awake until dawn by the rumble of high-flying B-52s and the boom of F-111s dropping their bombs only four or five miles distant from the city. Communist gunners fired at least ten rockets at the capital's only airport, killing 19 people and wounding 62, but the airport remained open...
...military was invited to hit targets previously off limits around Hanoi and Haiphong. From Guam and Thailand they came, wave after wave of green-and-brown aerial dreadnoughts. About 100 B-52s, flying in "cells" of three, were being used round the clock, supplemented by F-4 Phantoms, F-111s, and naval fighter-bombers from aircraft carriers. The missions reminded aviators of the last months of World War II in Europe, when bombers prowled the sky striking at "targets of opportunity," which meant everything...
...spite of the recent losses, the Air Force says that it has no intention of grounding the F-111s. Before the fourth plane went down Air Force Secretary Robert Seamons insisted: "We have flown over 1,000 missions out there and three losses in a thousand in combat, while flying tougher missions than any other aircraft over there, is notable. We have no plans to stand down the aircraft." U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff General John D. Ryan recently returned from Ta Khli Air Force Base in Thailand and told TIME, "The crews are still eager, and they're still...