Word: antiaircraft
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...challenge the half-dozen Soviet Ilyushin-28 jet bombers discovered by high-flying U.S reconnaissance planes late last month and at present sitting idly at Phucyen, just northwest of Hanoi. U.S. officials assume that the planes are Russian-piloted and represent Moscow's fulfillment-along with three antiaircraft missile sites under construction near the capital-of Premier Aleksei Kosygin's February pledge to give material aid to Ho Chi Minh. The Ilyushins are slow (580 m.p.h.) and they pack a light bomb load; still they could reach South Viet...
...Lieut. Colonel James Robinson Risner, 40 (TIME cover, April 23), led his Fighting Cock squadron and 90 other jets into North Viet Nam early last month, and hammered at the critical rail and highway bridge near Thanhhoa until finally it was destroyed. His F-105 was heavily damaged by antiaircraft fire, but he refused to be diverted from his mission. For such "extraordinary heroism," Air Force Chief of Staff General J. P. McConnell last week brought Robbie Risner back from Viet Nam, awarded him the Air Force Cross, second in rank only to the nation's highest decoration...
...McAllister took off in his single-engine L-19, climbing steeply as always. The plane reached approximately 300 ft. of altitude. Then -possibly as a result of damage from antiaircraft fire-it went out of control and crashed. Mac the Fac was instantly killed...
...retaliated mostly with shrieks of anger: "Moscow last week threatened, not for the first time, to permit "volunteers" to go to South Viet Nam if the U.S. continues its "aggression." There is aerial reconnaissance evidence that a site is being set up near Hanoi for Russian-made SAM II antiaircraft missiles...
Even with the aid of Chinese MIGs and Russian antiaircraft missiles (none of which have yet turned up), Ho's country could be reduced to an even more dire penury than it now suffers by a mere week of U.S. air strikes. Communist that he is, Ho doubtless dreads the thought of massive aid with manpower from Red China, for it would mean virtual occupation by his vast neighbor. But he presumably has got Lyndon Johnson's message that the U.S. is staunchly committed to the cause of freedom in Southeast Asia...