Word: guam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Invisible and Inaudible. The B-52s wheel in from bases in Thailand, on Guam, Okinawa and Taiwan to dump their huge loads. They fly so high that they are virtually invisible, and their bombs detonate on the ground only seconds after the faint whine of their engines is audible-and by then it is too late. They concentrate on areas of Communist pressure-as last week in the Central Highlands near the Cambodian border, where waves of B-52s attempted to break down Communist troop buildups. For a pilot's view of a raid, Robert Wildau of TIME...
...Viet Nam, Thailand and Laos; another, Bira Air Transport, provides air-taxi service in Thailand. The newest of what Six refers to as Continental's Pacific "spines" is Air Micronesia, whose planes will fly a route linking Hawaii with such well-known islands of World War II as Guam, Kwajalein, Saipan, Truk and Okinawa...
...Guam (5): Four believed for Humphrey, 1 for McCarthy...
...promised its first transpacific routes to the Orient (via Hawaii and Guam), a chance to become a genuine global airline in full competition with Pan Am for the fast-growing round-the-world passenger traffic...
...their targets from these spots, the B-52s were able to bomb with uncanny accuracy; the big bombers, in fact, were able to walk their sticks of bombs to within 100 yds. of the perimeter of the Marine bastion. Flying the 5,200 mile round trip from their Guam base, they averaged 40 to 50 strikes each day. Hardly an hour passed without a bombload falling on the Communists. In ten weeks, a total of 103,500 tons of explosives were dumped on the five-mile-square battlefield around the base...