Word: donghoi
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...north, F-100 Super Sabre jets flew combat air patrol. Their mission: to forewarn of the approach of enemy aircraft and if possible to intercept. The Super Sabres' radar attention was directed mostly toward the north, where Hanoi's jet airfields are located (the Donghoi airfield, to the south, had been knocked out by U.S. bombing...
...17th parallel, moving ever closer to Hanoi. During a single week, U.S. and South Vietnamese pilots flew 17,570 sorties on both sides of the border. Their chief target was North Viet Nam's radar network: with everything from half-ton bombs to deadly white phosphorous, they hit Donghoi, Hatinh, Cap Mui Ron and, in strikes by 100 Navy planes from the aircraft carriers Coral Sea and Han cock, Bachlongvi Island, only 80 miles from Red China's heavily fortified Hainan Island. For the first time, U.S. pilots were allowed to seek out targets of opportunity instead...
Just twelve hours after the Pleiku attack, 49 U.S. A-4 Skyhawks and F-8 Crusaders streaked off the decks of the U.S. aircraft carriers Ranger, Hancock and Coral Sea, all steaming about 100 miles off South Viet Nam in the South China Sea. The jets headed for Donghoi, 160 miles above the 17th parallel, a major staging point for Red guerrillas en route south. The bombers inflicted "considerable" damage, said McNamara, up from his sickbed. One plane was shot down, but its pilot was plucked from...
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