Word: 52s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Royal Australian Regiment, struck back into the "Iron Triangle" combed by allied forces only three weeks ago. The first operation encountered few V.C., but the guerrillas love to slip back into an area recently "cleared," and so this time the allies were double-checking with lethal thoroughness. Twice B-52s from Guam pounded the Triangle's rain forest and rubber trees. When the Airborne moved in, they carried tear gas-to protect the innocent as well as to flush the V.C. out of their tunnels-and promptly used it. Recently added to the U.S. military's growing armory...
...Phase 3. The skies indeed opened up - and rained napalm, machine-gun bullets and Bull-Pup missiles from U.S. fighter-bombers, which by last week were flying over 400 lethal sorties a day. No weather could hide the Viet Cong from the radar eyes of the Guam-based B-52s and their pulverizing 750-and 1,000-lb. bombs. And by the tens of thousands each week, U.S. fighting men swarmed into Viet Nam (total at the end of last week: 128,000), first to relieve the pressure on Vietnamese troops, then to go aggressively hunting and killing the enemy...
...troops and Dominicans in Santo Domingo -all kept their powder dry and their gunsights blackened Roughly speaking, ten wars are in progress throughout the world this week. They range from petty conflicts in which the strategic weapon is a poisoned arrow to major air raids in which jet B-52s bomb jungle hideaways. As a leading French strategist on the Quai d'Orsay puts it: "There is no longer such a thing as war and peace, just different levels of confrontation...
...largest combined allied operation of the war, launched last week near Ben Cat, 25 miles north of Saigon The target: a patch of rain forest and rubber plantations known as the "Iron Triangle," which had not been entered by government forces for years First Guam-based B-52s blasted the sides of the target. Then, swooping in over startled water buffaloes and silent paddies, helicopters brought in troops of the 173rd U.S. Airborne and the Royal Australian Regiment. The clearing in the trees was soon a blur of yellow red and green flare smoke, darting transport choppers, and prowling Cobras...
...increase of 50,000 in just six weeks. Soon that total will be surpassed; by year's end the U.S. will have more than 150,000 uniformed men in Viet Nam, not including the sailors and airmen of the Seventh Fleet, nor the crews of the giant B-52s based on Guam-all very much a part of the burgeoning war, as the Viet Cong can painfully attest...