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...Hanoi. The French were hemmed in and, after the 56-day Viet Minh siege began, had to be resupplied by parachute drops through dense antiaircraft fire. Con Thien can be resupplied within six minutes by helicopter from Dong Ha, ten miles to the southeast, or by land from Cam Lo, seven miles to the south, when the road is not washed out. The French conceived of Dienbienphu as "the cork in the bottle," designed to stop Viet Minh movements into the fertile Red River delta and Laos. But the garrison was ringed by hills that General Vo Nguyen Giap...
...bridge and then leaving it alone for a while, the system calls for flyers to make continuous "multiple cuts" in roads and rail lines, trapping trains and trucks between the gaps and leaving them exposed to U.S. planes (see THE WORLD). Last week's strikes at Haiphong and Cam Pha, the North's first and third biggest ports, signaled a shift to the next step-isolating the ports by blasting roads, marshaling yards and rail sidings around dock areas. > Antiaircraft and SAM-missile fire from the ground has fallen off dramatically in some areas, thanks largely to shortages...
Flying through cloud-laden skies that signaled the approaching monsoons, Navy attack planes from the carriers Oriskany and Coral Sea rained bombs and missiles for the first time on the port of Cam Pha, which is only 46 miles northeast of Haiphong and serves as its auxiliary port. Under congressional pressure to hit North Viet Nam harder, President Johnson gave the go-ahead to bomb Cam Pha when no ships were at the piers, thus seeking to avoid hitting any Russian vessels. After Navy scouts found the right moment, the raiders demolished Cam Pha's wharves, badly damaged...
Chop & Smash. The Cam Pha raid, and raids on five other previously forbidden places in recent weeks, reduced the number of untouched targets in North Viet Nam to a mere 46. Most of those 46 are too insignificant (small factories, pint-sized petroleum dumps) to warrant the risk of U.S. lives; other potential targets, such as factories in downtown areas, are ruled out on humanitarian grounds. Of the major targets not yet hit, many will probably be bombed in time. The most likely remaining targets: the power station and railyards at Lao Cai, an important supply link with China; three...
...after they hit Cam Pha, planes from the two carriers bombed Haiphong itself, penetrating closer to its center (eight-tenths of a mile) than ever before. Avoiding the Soviet and other foreign ships jamming the piers, the pilots smashed overcrowded warehouses, chopped up the railyards and knocked spans from both the rail and highway bridges over which supplies must pass to reach the rest of the country. U.S. strategists have decided that, for the time being at least, they will not try to deny access to Haiphong from the sea by bombing its dock areas or mining its harbor...