Word: cannoneering
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Streaking in like vengeful lightning bolts, the F-105 Thunderchiefs loosed their bombs, rockets and cannon fire on a North Viet Nam highway bridge, sent it crashing into a gorge. Speeding southeastward, they knocked out another bridge leading to Laos and long used by the Communists to send troops and supplies into South Viet Nam. With fuel and ordnance still to spare, the Thunderchiefs swung back north, destroyed a key railroad bridge in North Viet Nam. Only then did the pilots of the U.S. Air Force's 67th ("Fighting Cock") Tactical Fighter Squadron follow their leader, Lieut. Colonel James...
...Since then, he has led 18 missions against North Viet Nam-including three last week. His $2,500,000 Thunderchief fighter-bomber is a remarkable instrument of warfare. It can carry twelve 750-lb. bombs or eight pods of 19 rockets each, and has a six-barrel, 20-mm. cannon that can fire 4,000 rounds per minute. Loaded, it weighs 48,400 Ibs., and its top speed exceeds 1,660 m.p.h. Its cockpit is a bewildering jungle of more than 75 switches, toggles and levers...
...seconds later I had ripped open my survival kit, set the squawk-radio beam going, activated my 11-h.p. radio and called Thunderbird Two. The first thing I asked him was whether he had sunk that gunboat. He said he had cut it in two with his 20-mm. cannon. Then I asked if Old Dumbo [a rescue seaplane] was coming, and he said right away. The Dumbo landed a few minutes later and picked...
...werewolves. Not even the French were able to penetrate it. Managing to lure two Viet Cong battalions out of the forest and into a "hollow square" defense perimeter, government infantry pounced, as "Cobras"-armed U.S. helicopters-moved in with close support. While naval support craft slammed away with cannon from a nearby canal, the helicopters herded Viet Cong prisoners out of paddies like so many sheep. Then in swept U.S. Skyraiders and B-57s, splashing napalm and shrapnel clusters over the enemy emplacement. Gunfire from South Vietnamese Rangers did the rest...
...other side of the world from Hanoi, Soviet jets also sped across the skies. Only 500 feet above the rooftops of West Berlin whooshed dozens of supersonic MIGs. They fired salvos of blanks from their cannon, shattered the sound barrier once every seven minutes, shook windows, walls, nerves and eardrums all over town...