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...follow him anywhere." To make sure they do, Olds keeps in top shape, plays squash daily on a court he built himself at Ubon. Well aware that his reaction time is bound to slow with age, Olds practices his flying skills incessantly, and 57 raids over the flak-and-fighter-fraught North have only sharpened them. "Younger guys have to think before they start a maneuver," he says. "With me, it's instinct...
...steel plant has been bombed 13 times. To defend the heartland as best he can, Ho has emplaced in it some 5,000 of his total 7,000 antiaircraft guns and about 20 of his 25 SAM battalions, each of which operates six missile launchers. The result is layered flak and missiles from the deck all the way to the stratosphere that have brought down 541 U.S. planes...
...pilots to jettison their bomb loads so as to lighten their planes for impending dogfights which, as often as not, failed to materialize. For another, when the MIGs are aloft, U.S. planes fly closer to the ground to avoid becoming targets -and that makes them more vulnerable to intense flak and small-arms fire. Moreover, as one Air Force general put it, if the MIGs were forced to retreat to Red Chinese airfields, their effectiveness would be drastically reduced, since they would then have only three to five minutes' "loiter time" over Hanoi...
...entered a new and hotter phase, the skies above North Viet Nam were thick with U.S. planes - and with Communist flak. U.S. pilots flew an average of 243 sorties a day, hitting several targets that they had never be fore been permitted to bomb, but care fully avoiding throwing any knockout punches. As the monsoon rains cleared, U.S. jets blasted MIG airfields for the first time and hit new targets in the port city of Haiphong and around Hanoi. For the time being, they left un touched the large Phuc Yen strip north west of Hanoi, the base for nearly...
...such fields). Only 13 of the 521 U.S. planes thus far lost over Viet Nam have been brought down by MIGs; antiaircraft fire has downed most of the others. But MIGs frequently force a U.S. fighter-bomber to jettison its payload or to fly into a heavy curtain of flak in order to evade their pursuit, and lately they have been more aggressive in challenging U.S. planes. Red China last week claimed to have shot down three U.S. aircraft over its territories, including an automatically controlled reconaissance plane. But U.S. pilots report that they have so far chased no North...