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...American B52 bombers members Monday staged heavy attacks on the Hanoi-Haiphong area for the first time in the months. During the raids, two B52 and one F111 were shot down in the outline air attack...
...Command refused to comment on the continuation of its heavy bombing of the Hanoi-Haiphong area yesterday. The bombing followed the loss of two B52 bombers and an F111 fighter jet over North Vietnam on Monday...
While the interview progressed, B52 bombers were secretly taxiing on runways in Thailand and Okinawa, and on carriers in the South China Sea, in preparation for a massive bombing raid on the Democratic Republic of Vietnam the first such bombing since last...
...alleged crime centers around Special Forces Unit B57 (code name: "Black Beard") located on Nha Trang airbase 190 miles northeast of Saigon. Like two other outfits (B52 and B-55) operating in Viet Nam, B57 is a Special Forces intelligence unit, commanded by Major David Crew of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, one of the eight under arrest. It was engaged in counterespionage along the borders of Laos and Cambodia, employing a network of 300 secret agents to spot enemy infiltrators, supply dumps and rest camps. One of its top agents was a Vietnamese national with the cover name of Thai Khac...
...March 1961, General Electric proposed to initiate early flight testing of a nuclear-propulsion system through the use of a test reactor mounted on a B52 aircraft. The reactor to be tested in flight is one designed for ground test and would require extensive modification, with resultant diversion of energy and skill, at considerable cost to the reactor development program. The purpose was to demonstrate reactor performance. However, the thrust generated by the reactor would be inadequate to sustain flight, and the proposal would contribute little toward the development of a fully nuclear-powered aircraft. In summary...