Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American wounded, airlifted from Saigon, were being treated at hospitals outside of Manila, and U.S. fighting ships ?back on rotation from the Tonkin Gulf?lay at anchor in the palm-fringed Philippine harbor of Subic Bay. B-52 bombers from Guam swept past the Philippines before making their bomb runs over North and South Viet...
...major corridors to the south. The North Vietnamese, says one high-ranking Marine officer, are "no better at running these damned hills than we are, and they don't know the country any better. Once they commit themselves en masse down one of these draws, we can bomb them and shell them night...
Risk & Riposte. Many U.S. military men naturally want to tighten the screws, chiefly by increased bombing. Stung by the criticism that air power has failed to stem North Vietnamese infiltration, they argue that, even though prohibited from hitting the North's most important targets, they have managed to knock out two-thirds of its petroleum supply, to keep 250,000 people constantly at work repairing bomb damage, and to deny Communist units 50% of the supplies that combat soldiers normally need...
Fullback Pete Walton and halfback Gene Ryzewicz, each scoring a touchdown, contributed their bit to the wrecking of the now-mutilated Tiger defense. Princeton once again flashed its vulner-ability to the long bomb, twice pulled by both Rutgers and Columbia, when Dartmouth end Bill Calhoun hauled in a 52-yard scoring pass from Beard...
...four of the touchdowns scored against Princeton this season--two each by Rutgers and Columbia--have been long plays of 80 or more yards. Unfortunately for the Tigers, this type of bomb is just the thing for Beard. Ryzewicz, and those two fine Indian receivers, Bill Calhoun and Bob McLeod...