Word: flak
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Meals are served three times a day in an underground bunker, but only to five men at a time-so that there will never be too many men in the same place in the event of a direct hit. No one ventures above ground without his flak jacket and helmet, although most Marines carry their helmets and go bareheaded in order to hear incoming shells better. The first warning is the boom of the gun across the Ben Hai River separating the two Viet Nams. Then comes the quavering whistle of the shell tearing through the air, followed quickly...
...woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters...
...more fortunate pilots who did get back to their bases reported dodging some of the heaviest flak of the war. The Communists had taken ad vantage of last month's cloud cover to station more of their antiaircraft guns and SAM missiles just north of Hanoi. Air Force Ace Robin Olds noted that "there were also some MIGs to liven things up." Two of them were gunned down by Air Force Lieut. David Waldrop. The sky was so thick with planes that the North Vietnamese joined in the MIG-shoot too; they accidentally shot down one of their planes...
...Touch of Flak...
Others attacked (number of targets classified): Naval bases, munitions factories, iron-and steelworks, cement plants, radar and flak sites, railyards and shops, and communications installations...