Word: 57s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hollow square" defense perimeter, government infantry pounced, as "Cobras"-armed U.S. helicopters-moved in with close support. While naval support craft slammed away with cannon from a nearby canal, the helicopters herded Viet Cong prisoners out of paddies like so many sheep. Then in swept U.S. Skyraiders and B-57s, splashing napalm and shrapnel clusters over the enemy emplacement. Gunfire from South Vietnamese Rangers did the rest...
Ready to Go. The President himself eschewed words, confined himself to action orders. For the first time, U.S. pilots and crewmen in U.S. B-57s and F-100s swept out in repeated sorties against Viet Cong emplacements in South Viet Nam. This time there was no talk of Americans being in South Viet Nam on a mere "advisory" basis...
Most of the B-57s crews were asleep when a little band of Viet Cong crept to within 2,500 yards of the Bienhoa flight line, took accurate aim and blasted the barracks and airstrip with 81-mm. mortars. G.I.s ran pell-mell from their bivouac as more than 100 rounds fell onto the sleeping quarters, injuring 72 and killing four. Already, the midnight raiders had pumped shell after shell onto the B-57s, destroying six and damaging at least six more...
...force grew, so did the costs: up to $1,000,000 a day. Involved are some 1,700 airmen, 6,600 sailors, 600 soldiers, 100 marines, 1,000 civilian technicians, 1,800 civilian construction workers. Starbird's air armada includes highflying U-2s, workhorse C-130s, B-57s...
...girl vintage looks promising. It has some of the heavy and full-bodied characteristics of the '52s and '57s (Monroe, Bardot), a hint of the dry classicism of certain '37s (Vivien Leigh), and may even show some of the sparkling ambition of the '53s (Grace Kelly). Sample tastes...