Word: antiaircraft
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...raiders set off from Nakhon Phanom, a search-and-rescue base in Thailand. They approached their objective overland across Laos and mountainous inland North Viet Nam, a route that avoided the enemy's heaviest radar and antiaircraft defenses. When they returned emptyhanded, Nixon telephoned both Laird and Moorer. He had no regrets, he said; it had been a good plan, the right thing to do. If nothing else, the raid had clearly embarrassed Hanoi by pointing up the holes in the North Vietnamese air defenses...
...weeks ago, North Vietnamese antiaircraft fire shot down an unarmed U.S. RF4 Phantom reconnaissance plane, killing the crew of two. Since then other reconnaissance flights have been fired on but not hit. Late last week the U.S. retaliated with what Defense Secretary Melvin Laird elaborately called "limited-duration protective-reaction air strikes"-a 24-hour series of raids involving nearly 150 U.S. fighter-bombers from airfields in South Viet Nam and Thailand and from carriers in the Tonkin Gulf. Radio Hanoi asserted that the U.S. had attacked the port of Haiphong and other targets in the northern part...
...weather. It was also held off because the North Vietnamese had moved their MIG fighters south toward the Demilitarized Zone in anticipation of a U.S. strike. The Air Force and Navy jets attacked only after the MIGs returned north. The U.S. said that the targets were limited to antiaircraft and surface-to-air missile sites, though some nearby troop concentrations and supply dumps were probably hit as well. Hanoi asserted that the Americans had hit a prisoner-of-war camp north of the North Vietnamese capital, wounding several captured U.S. pilots; a number of civilians were killed, Hanoi added. Hanoi...
Announcing the raids on Saturday, Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird had said they were "limited duration protective reaction air strikes against missile and antiaircraft gun sites and related facilities in North Vietnam, south of the 19th parallel"-far to the south of Hanoi...
Bombers pounded North Vietnam from midnight until dawn, the deadline set by the Pentagon for completing what it called a series of retaliatory strikes against missile and antiaircraft gun positions and supply depots...