Word: combating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam's panhandle. Suddenly, something went wrong, and the U.S.'s most advanced warplane crashed somewhere in the dense jungle of Thailand or western Laos. It was the third F-111 crash since a squadron of six of the $6,000,000 swing-wings made their combat debut in Viet Nam less than a month...
...crash raised a new storm of scan dal over what is already the most controversial warplane ever built. After the first two crashes, both of which occurred in the first week of combat, the Air Force grounded the F-111. Though it failed to find the first plane, the Air Force did recover the wreckage of the second. After sifting through the twisted parts, its investigators declared that the cause of the crash was a $1 tube of sealant that had been left behind, apparently by a careless mechanic. Somehow, it had worked its way into the automatic flight mechanism...
...plane went down. Mystified by the malfunctions, the Air Force was at a loss to say what was bugging the enormously complicated fighting machine, which carries three tons of electronic gear. After withholding the surviving F-111s from action for a few days, it sent them once again into combat. This time it intends to keep them under radar surveillance at all times so that it will know at least where-if not why-they go down...
...Combat photography has become almost a commonplace, an adjunct to the 6 o'clock news and weather. A Face of War, though, has a rightful claim to be judged as art: it is a documentary in the great tradition begun by Civil War Photographer Matthew B. Brady when he took his cumbersome cameras to Virginia in 1861. The film's producer-director is Eugene S. Jones, a veteran television cameraman who fought with the Marines during World War II. He spent 97 days with a company of Marines in the heartland of Viet Nam. In the course...
...excellence of A Face of War is not only in its fine camerawork but also in its sense of completeness. Its 77 minutes encompass the totality of Viet Nam combat: the fear and pain and boredom, heat and rain, rare relaxation, and uneasy meetings of East and West. The Marines are genial giants running a village clinic or delivering a baby; they are stunned young men around the whimpering body of a mortally wounded child; they are stone-faced juggernauts of mechanical war evacuating bewildered civilians in helicopters, methodically incinerating their houses with flamethrowers to deprive the enemy...