Word: 52s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ADVANCED MANNED STRATEGIC AIRCRAFT. The Air Force, reluctant to rely entirely on missiles to penetrate Soviet and Chinese defenses, wants to start work on an AMSA fleet to replace the aging B-52s and B-58s. Foster favors the AMSA, but not immediately. He prefers to improve weapons and penetration devices on the older bombers...
...South Viet Nam. City dwellers were asked to stockpile food and fuel, lock their doors and stay home. Saigon police threw a cordon around the capital to block arms infiltration. The U.S. 25th Infantry Division was deployed around Tan Son Nhut airport and the allied headquarters there, and B-52s bombed the Communists' likely approaches to Saigon...
...North Vietnamese troops that abandoned the siege of Khe Sanh are believed to have filtered down into A Shau, where they have increased the threat to Hue's security. Though the valley has been repeatedly bombed, the U.S. last week turned loose on A Shau the giant B-52s that had helped lift the siege of Khe Sanh. In ten waves averaging six planes each, the eight-engine jets hit the valley with 500 tons of explosives during a 24-hour period and kept coming back throughout the week. They blasted truck parking lots, weapons sites and bunkers, possibly...
...bombing struck dread into the North Vietnamese. They feared the fighter-bombers, but most of all they feared the B-52s. Reason: the B-52s fly so high-above 40,000 ft.-that their approach is unknown to those on the ground until the huge bombs fall on them. According to the U.S. estimates, 15,000 enemy troops were killed or injured by U.S. bombardment. The bombs obliterated trenches, leveled hills, scorched whole acres of land. They even wiped out the North Vietnamese headquarters bunker, killing all those inside. The bombing touched off 5,000 secondary explosions and more than...
...That same day the monsoon began to lift from Khe Sanh, and the better weather brought the fighter-bombers to join with the B-52s in earth-jarring raids. The heavy U.S. bombing only heightened the desire of the remaining North Vietnamese troops to get out. The testimony of captured NVA regulars indicates that the bombing so disrupted the Communist supply lines that Giap's men were nearly starving...