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...Viet Cong guerrillas might be equipped for the first time with 20-mm. and 37-mm. antiaircraft guns, which could seriously threaten the U.S. planes and helicopters that fly vital strafing and bombing missions. One U.S. F-4 Phantom hit by ground fire last week limped back to Danang airbase with a three-foot hole in its fuselage-big enough to have been caused by such A.A. batteries...
...delivered by a boy on a bicycle that blow up an embassy, or those at Danang, are bombs just as much as those dropped on the North...
Elephant Gun. Last week, as the Viet Cong again dropped mortar shells on several U.S. Marine cantonments in the perimeter around Danang, the President and his advisers were considering a problem that was a corollary to the decision to resume bombing. How heavily should U.S. war planes bomb the North? At the same level as before? More intensively? Initially, at least, the Administration plans to follow roughly the same bombing tactics as before. Nonetheless, commanders in the field are virtually unanimous in urging a more intensified, selective pattern. None suggest bombing the Hanoi-Haiphong population centers. But they point...
...Viet Cong, who initiated the latest truce, shattered it almost immediately. Communist guerrillas fired on a U.S. Marine platoon near Danang, killing two sergeants. A fierce battle between Reds and South Korean troops near Tuy Hoa resulted in 53 Communist dead. In a pre-dawn raid by terrorists, a 25-lb. bomb exploded outside a U.S. billet near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport, killing a U.S. soldier...
Last week, from southern Saigon to eastern Danang to the Cambodian bor der in the west, the allies were out in unprecedented numbers, aggressively hunting for an enemy to fight...