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Toward week's end, U.S. jets again clashed with MIGs, and again suffered a loss. Four Navy F-4 Phantoms from the carriers Coral Sea and Ranger were flying patrol about 35 miles from the Communist Chinese island of Hainan...
...make positive identification, the MIGs almost certainly belonged to the Chinese Communists rather than the North Vietnamese. When the battle was over, one Phantom jet was missing, though the Pentagon refused to confirm the loss officially. As for the MIGs, they beat a hasty retreat in the direction of Hainan...
...radar network: with everything from half-ton bombs to deadly white phosphorous, they hit Donghoi, Hatinh, Cap Mui Ron and, in strikes by 100 Navy planes from the aircraft carriers Coral Sea and Han cock, Bachlongvi Island, only 80 miles from Red China's heavily fortified Hainan Island. For the first time, U.S. pilots were allowed to seek out targets of opportunity instead of limiting their attacks to targets chosen in Washington. They were quick to exercise their new option. In one raid, eight F-105 Thunderchiefs found a break in the clouds over a radar site at Vinhson...
...under new "rules of engagement" authorizing hot pursuit of enemy jets right into Red China, if necessary. So far, it has not been necessary; though Peking now has supersonic MIG-19s and MIG-21s sitting at airbases in Yunnan province, just over the North Viet Nam border, and on Hainan Island, 150 miles east of the Viet Nam coast, the planes have been inactive...
...armed forces are now disposed, the heaviest concentration-roughly six armies-is opposite Formosa. Four armies are positioned along the North Korean border and another five spread west through Manchuria and Inner Mongolia. Three armies hold rebellious Tibet, and those massed in south China total seven-one guards vulnerable Hainan Island, another is stationed in mountainous Yunnan province, and three are lined up along the North Vietnamese border. Two other armies are in reserve near Canton...