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...launch Operation Junction City, which cost upwards of $25 million, the U.S. threw in 30,000 troops, the equivalent of two entire army divisions, and sent noisy C-130s over the area to deliver the first American combat parachute jump of the war. Giant trees crumpled as B-52s from Guam, 2,600 miles away, swept in to carpet the forest with high explosives. Screaming Phantoms and Skyraiders plastered the perimeters of jungle clearings with napalm and thermite bombs, setting brushfires that blazed for days. Helicppters thrummed in to deposit entire platoons of infantrymen, and armored personnel carriers rumbled through...
...eighth time in the war, Guam-based B-52s roared in to plaster the Demilitarized Zone above the 17th parallel, this time in support of a 1,500-man Marine sweep south of the DMZ. Storming ashore from amphibious landing craft and coming to earth in choppers, the Marines met no significant contact, by week's end had killed only 30 Reds-a sharp contrast to their operation in the DMZ last July when 824 Communists were cornered and killed...
...every F-111A, $8,000,000 for every F-111B. But the Defense Department continues to insist that the F-111 is a cost-cutting undertaking, partly because the Pentagon plans to convert it into a strategic bomber known as the FB-111, which would replace older B-52s...
After four years, two of them as a navigator in SAC B-52s, I'm ready to hang it up. I haven't enjoyed much of it, but then nobody guaranteed me that I would. I have seen England, Hawaii, Okinawa, Bermuda, Guam, South Dakota. I've pulled Alert away from my family an average of three days a week. I've climbed over, banged on, shined flashlights into, and learned to love "The Bomb." I've seen Viet Nam from the air 21 times, and I've had my teeth worked...
...Reds out of their tunnels and bunkers. As the enemy came up for air, the overcast and seemingly empty sky began raining bombs. For 47 minutes they fell in lethal, patterned precision, laying open the ridge in a giant surgical slash. The bombs came from 24 high-flying B-52s guided in from Guam by "sky spot" radar controllers on the ground. Within five minutes after the last bomb had burst, G.I.s were swarming over the ridge-or what was left of it. The scattered pockets of resistance that had survived the lash of destruction were soon wiped...