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Each morning the 35 fighter-bomber pilots of the Royal Laotian Air Force file solemnly into the office of their commanding general and remove their personal horseshoes from pegs on the wooden wall. Then the pilots trot out to their American-built T-28s for an other crack at the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...Most rapidly growing of Saigon's military arms is the Vietnamese air force. Two years ago, it mustered 6,000 men and 185 aircraft -many of them ancient T-28 trainers converted to fighter-bombers. Today the air force has 12,500 men and 350 planes. The T-28s have been phased out and replaced by the A-1H Skyraider attack bomber, a brute of a plane that pilots fondly call "a truck-but what a truck!" The air force's primary mission is to fly close support for the army, and, operating in close cooperation with...
...targets-mainly along Route 7, the principal convoy link from Communist North Viet Nam to the Pathet Lao, and along the Ho Chi Minh trail, over which North Viet Nam feeds men and material into South Viet Nam (see map). Though aided by Laotian-flown propeller-driven T-28s, bases in South Viet Nam and elsewhere supplied U.S.-manned F-105 Thunderchiefs-one of the hottest, meanest items in the U.S. Air Force inventory, capable of lifting twenty-six 565-lb. bombs, almost twice the payload of a World War II B17. Of late, F-105s have been seen taking...
...Reds' setbacks are the result of a stiffer U.S. and Laotian government policy. U.S.-supplied T-28s are crippling Pathet Lao supply lines. The Reds could counterattack massively on the ground, but they apparently fear U.S. retaliation. Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma has survived with the help of the rightists, who have not tried a coup to take over the government for fully six months-although there has been an occasional, embarrassing mutiny among neutralist soldiers. During a recent Paris conference of the Laotian factions, Souvanna stood firm against unilateral concessions to the Reds. King Savang Vatthana got so vexed...
Fleeing Population. The Congo government was in no position to help them. Despite strafing attacks by the T-28s, the rebels moved close to the eastern Congo city of Bukavu, and most of its white population were fleeing. Hundreds of miles to the west, dependents of missionaries and United Nations personnel flew out of two other provincial capitals that had been safe the week before. Reports of an advancing rebel column in Katanga were sending waves of fear through Tshombe's former stronghold of Elisabethville...