Word: 52s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protest had escalated quickly. As students returned from Spring vacations, many applauded the North Vietnamese advances, hopeful that the Thieu regime in the South would be quickly deposed. But after the Nixon Administration escalated the air war over the North, hitting Hanoi and Haiphong with giant B-52s for the first time in the war, domestic resistance rapidly stiffened. A coalition of liberal and radical students embracing a variety of campus political organizations met and called a mass meeting for April 20. The Crimson joined 15 other college newspapers across the country in running concurrently an editorial calling...
...began on March 30. Surrounded by three Communist divisions, An Loc has been shelled daily in the heaviest artillery barrage of the entire Indochina war. It has also endured repeated ground assaults by North Vietnamese troops and tanks and incessant air attacks by U.S. fighter-bombers, gunships and B-52s on the city and its outskirts. A South Vietnamese relief column has remained stalled for two months by enemy gunfire along Highway 13 to the south...
...protest had escalated quickly. As students returned from Spring vacations, many applauded the North Vietnamese advances, hopeful that the Thieu regime in the South would be quickly deposed. But after the Nixon Administration escalated the air war over the North, hitting Hanoi and Haiphong with giant B-52s for the first time in the war, domestic resistance rapidly stiffened. A coalition of liberal and radical students embracing a variety of campus political organizations met and called a mass meeting for April 20. The Crimson joined 15 other college newspapers across the country in running concurrently an editorial calling...
...Vietnamese officials were venturing to speculate that the worst of the fighting on the ground might be over. Meanwhile, the war from the skies was deadlier than ever. The Nixon Administration last week ordered another increase in the bombing of North Viet Nam. One additional squadron of B-52s was ordered into action, and the range of targets was expanded to include factories, power plants and chemical works. With good weather over the North, the U.S. Air Force and Navy were counting on 20 bombing days per month in the weeks ahead...
...case in point occurred only days after Okinawa ceremonially changed hands. Three Guam-based B-52s were unable to refuel in mid-air on a bombing run to Viet Nam because of weather conditions in the western Pacific. They were diverted to Okinawa's Kadena A.F.B., where the big bombers were based until last year. Aware of Japanese sensitivity, the U.S. embassy in Tokyo alerted Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda about the new flight plan of the B-52s; thus Fukuda was able to break the news of an "unavoidable emergency" that forced the planes to land on Okinawa...