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...Minh Trail. This main southbound network has been improved by 200 miles of new roads surfaced with crushed stone and often concealed by bamboo trellises covered with branches. Down it flow an estimated 5,500 to 7,000 men each month. In an effort to stem the tide, Guam-based B-52 Stratoforts last week carpet-bombed infiltration outlets in South Viet Nam's "Zone C" for the eighth time in eleven days. But only Ma and his antique, prop-driven T-28s have been hitting the Sihanouk Trail...
...American air armada? The most likely explanation: in severing Hanoi's rail links to China, the U.S. was hitting so uncomfortably close to home that every defense had to be employed. Under the high drama of last week's dogfights, the workhorse bombers were busy as ever. Guam-based B-52s unloaded 300 tons of high explosives on the Mu Gia Pass infiltration route into South Viet Nam; Navy jets hit a SAM site near Vinh and sank 248 junks moving men and arms south by convoy. Whether the MIG commitment could partially turn that aerial tide remained...
...from the north. American airmen have long been frustrated by the fact that the F-105 and F-4B fighter-bombers used for strikes against North Viet Nam are too small to haul enough bombs to completely smash roads and bridges. Last week the U.S. sent winging from Guam to North Viet Nam just the planes for the job: eight-engine B-52 jet bombers, armed with 630 tons of bombs. It was not only the B-52s' first strike into North Viet Nam, but also one of the largest bombing raids since World...
...closed out three-week Operation Lincoln along the Cambodian border. The Flying Horsemen's tally: 480 enemy killed, ten captured, 98 weapons seized. Cross-country, near Tuy Hoa along the South China Sea, the 101st Airborne routed a Viet Cong company, killing 15 in a fierce fire fight. Guam-based B-52 bombers, newly modified to haul 60,000 Ibs. of bombs each, jackhammered a Viet Cong radio and communications center 35 miles northeast of Saigon. The big jets came in single file, each unloading its 750-lb. bombs on the same, deeply bunkered site of the radio...
...Rock." The term has been a designation for many places by men suffering from civic disability-Alcatraz, Guam, Oahu-but the old original Rock was Gibraltar, that whale-headed monolith that was a minor prize and major symbol of the British Empire in its grandest days. Mocked the anti-imperialist Catholic poet Chesterton: "Gibraltar's a rock that you see very plain, and attached to its base is the district of Spain...