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...Shots." Though the cease-fire had been in effect for more than ten days, Cairo chose to remain a city under siege. Windows stayed blacked out, sandbags and anti-bomb walls were still being built in front of public buildings, people were still being stopped for security checks. Huge ack-ack guns clanked their way through the city streets. The Arab Socialist Union, Egypt's only political party, began recruiting a popular militia. To keep returning Egyptian troops from spilling the real battle story, Nasser quarantined them outside Cairo; and many families that lost sons or husbands...
...they took the precaution of assembling around Haiphong and Hanoi one of the world's most lethal concentrations of antiaircraft guns and missiles. Haiphong's precious complex was guarded by 56 multicaliber antiaircraft guns and seven SAM sites. Hanoi's installation bristled with more than 90 ack-ack guns, countless massed machine guns and nearly a score of missile sites. How heavily defended the targets were-thanks to the help of Moscow and Peking-the pilots well know...
Ground fire against the raiders was minimal, because low-flying jets had swooped in ahead with napalm to burn out the enemy ack-ack...
Most of the planes got through unscathed, but by the time the last jets had reached the target, the excited Reds got off some telling ack-ack rounds. Down went two of the attackers, an F-100 and an F-105, and out went the pilots in their parachutes. While the remaining U.S. jets held Communist ground troops at bay with strafing runs, U.S. helicopters fluttered in from nearby bases, picked up Captain Albert C. Vollmer, 32, of Denton, Kans. His downed flight mate, Captain Charles L. Ferguson, 35, of Clovis, N. Mex., hid all night in the jungle before...
From planes, Northrop made a short jump into recoverable Mach 2 target missiles for ack-ack training. The target drones, of which Northrop is the world's largest builder, float down to earth on parachutes after the shoot is finished-and they gave Northrop expertise in high-altitude landing systems. The eventual result: the Northrop-built recovery system for the Mercury capsule, including its 63-ft.-wide parachute, which brought Astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom down from space...