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...area comprising South Viet Nam's five northernmost provinces, there was an ominous upsurge in Communist military preparations, prompting the Allies to send in heavy reinforcements. North of the 17th parallel, the U.S. air war was measurably intensified by the first bombing raids within the city limits of Haiphong, North Viet Nam's second city and principal port...
...Haiphong raids hit two thermal power plants-one barely a mile from the downtown business center, the other 2.1 miles away. Nearly 160 Navy jets took part, swooping off the decks of the attack carriers Kitty Hawk and Ticonderoga to strike at noon and again 4½ hours later. Dumping almost 150 tons of bombs on the plants, the strikes destroyed 80% of their generating capacity-and 12% of the North's total power supply-without losing a single plane. As one pilot said on his return to the Kitty Hawk: "There are no lights tonight in Haiphong...
...resolution passed by the club's executive committee specifically criticized the attacks on the Hanoi and Haiphong central cities and the MIG bases. The statement declared that "such bombings cannot...serve a useful military purpose but can only increase the danger of Russian or Chinese participation...
...bombing of the key North Vietnamese port of Haiphong late last week only makes it clear what has been suspected for almost a year -- that the purpose of the American air raids above the 17th parallel has become punitive and coercive. No longer does the United States pretend that the aim of such bombing is merely to impede the military efforts of the North and boost the morale of the militarist government in Saigon. Rather, America's planners, frustrated by the understandable reluctance of Hanoi to negotiate, have decided to force the North Vietnamese to the conference table under...
Staunch Backs. About two-thirds of all Communist aid comes through North Viet Nam's principal port of Haiphong, free of any interference by U.S. Seventh Fleet warships patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin. Most of the Russians' oil and machinery land on Haiphong's always crowded docks; even the nearby Chinese ship most of their aid to Haiphong rather than send it overland. Since February, there has been a change in the pattern of traffic at Haiphong; fewer Chinese ships are arriving and, as if by agreement between the two countries, more Soviet ships are taking their...