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...each of the 30 types of missions, from reconnaissance to rescue operations, that are flown over North Viet Nam. He has also made it a point to fly in every kind of U.S. aircraft in use in Asia, from little Cessna spotter planes to the fleet F-4 fighter-bomber. Only Momyer himself can call off a search-and-rescue effort for a downed U.S. pilot, and he refuses to leave his combat center until he has made that grim decision, even if it means pacing the floor through an entire night...
...Grisly Desolation. For one more day and night the two battalions waited while fighter-bomber pilots hammered the head off the hill, flying some 150 strikes during the battle. The next morning, the weary G.I.s claimed their reward at last. Scaling the ridge, they met only scattered sniper fire and a few mortars lobbed from a nearby hill. The North Vietnamese had abandoned Hill 875 during the night, taking many of their dead with them. The summit was a grisly desolation of charred and splintered trees, burned-out machine guns and blackened fragments of bodies...
...traditional boast of new war-planes-as of new automobiles-is that they are even faster, fancier and lovelier than their predecessors. No such claim can be made for the Navy's newest jet bomber, the A-7A Corsair II. Its touted virtues, in fact, include slowness, cheapness and unfashionably simple gadgetry...
Timing. The Pentagon's current impression is that the Soviet orbital bomb is principally designed against vulnerable American bomber bases. While admitting that there is no foolproof defense against massive Soviet ICBM and FOBS attacks on cities, McNamara argued, as is his wont, that the best deterrent continues to be the immense target killing powers of the ground-based U.S. ICBM arsenal, the roughly 600 nuclear-armed strategic bombers and 650 Polaris missiles...
...round his middle and walked off with first honors at the 1964 Venice Biennale. Onetime Sign Painter James Rosenquist composed his images of the modern U.S.A. -from hair dryers to atomic bombs-on a canvas titled F-lll, which measures 13 ft. longer than the 85-ft. jet fighter-bomber itself. The painting was bought in 1965 for $60,000 by Manhattan Collector Robert Scull, and is currently one of the hits of the U.S. pop art exhibition in Sao Paulo...