Word: antiaircraft
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...Ordinary antiaircraft fire proved something else again. So densely has Hanoi ringed likely targets that in the past month ground fire has claimed an average of one U.S. plane a day over North Viet Nam. Last week five U.S. planes were downed. One of them was an Air Force Phantom. Set afire by flak, the Phantom's two-man crew sent out a distress signal, then radioed that they were going to try to reach the Gulf of Tonkin...
...launchings in the year since the first was fired -they do aid the enemy in another respect. Because SAMs are most effective at high altitudes, they force U.S. pilots to come in low-and thus within range of North Viet Nam's withering barrage of antiaircraft guns. Flak brought down five U.S. planes last week, raising the total since the air war began...
...strike area was two miles northwest of Haiphong (pop. 375,000), North Viet Nam's biggest port and second largest city. First, the leading Phantoms bombed and rocketed the formidable concentration of radar-directed antiaircraft batteries ringing the port's walled oil-storage facilities. While other F-4s prowled overhead and to the north to ward off any attacking MIGs, the Skyhawk attack bombers swooped on their targets. Within eight minutes, they had dropped 19 tons of bombs and 5-in. Zuni rockets on the nation's principal oil-storage complex (capacity 476,000 barrels), its only...
Sheets of Shrapnel. The North Vietnamese had a more pragmatic view of U.S. policy. Having repeatedly and unequivocally rejected all logical conditions for a settlement, 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...
...handful of Swedes, Norwegians and Dutchmen, but it was left to the bold and buccaneering nation that fathered Sir Francis Drake and Captain Kidd to make pirate radios into big business and a national British pastime to boot. From creaky ferries, minesweepers, freighters and abandoned World War II antiaircraft towers just outside the three-mile limit, impudent stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London blast out the siren songs of the Beatles, the Stones, Ella, Frankie, Dylan, Gardol and S. & H. Green Stamps to 17.5 million listeners a week, or one Briton in three. Not only is the sport...