Word: bombloads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombers, in fact, were able to walk their sticks of bombs to within 100 yds. of the perimeter of the Marine bastion. Flying the 5,200 mile round trip from their Guam base, they averaged 40 to 50 strikes each day. Hardly an hour passed without a bombload falling on the Communists. In ten weeks, a total of 103,500 tons of explosives were dumped on the five-mile-square battlefield around the base...
...Stratoforts swept in at 15,000 ft. from their base on Guam, 2,600 miles away. En route, two of the $8,000,000 planes collided while refueling off the Philippines, and over the target area another plane was unable to release its bombload because of a mechanical failure. The remaining bombers unloaded a torrent of high explosives-270 tons in all-on the tangled forest floor. Then they wheeled for home, confident that they had dispersed the Viet Cong and killed many. But had they...