Word: endsweep
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...Navy task force of more than 20 vessels gathered in the Gulf of Tonkin last week for the start of one of the nation's first big postwar missions. Code-named "Endsweep," the operation will search out and destroy the thousands of mines that the U.S. laid down last May to cut off shipping to Haiphong and six other North Vietnamese ports...
...Endsweep, commanded by Rear Admiral Brian McCauley, will use some new minesweeping vehicles, about 50 of the huge Sikorsky "Sea Stallion" helicopters. Normally equipped with two 2,850-h.p. engines, the eleven-ton Sea Stallion has the strength to haul the heavy and complicated electronic gear needed for locating and detonating mines. There are four methods...
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