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...strike area was two miles northwest of Haiphong (pop. 375,000), North Viet Nam's biggest port and second largest city. First, the leading Phantoms bombed and rocketed the formidable concentration of radar-directed antiaircraft batteries ringing the port's walled oil-storage facilities. While other F-4s prowled overhead and to the north to ward off any attacking MIGs, the Skyhawk attack bombers swooped on their targets. Within eight minutes, they had dropped 19 tons of bombs and 5-in. Zuni rockets on the nation's principal oil-storage complex (capacity 476,000 barrels), its only...
...Viet Nam's second biggest petroleum depot (202,000 barrels), 3½ miles northeast of the capital city's center. At about the same time, A-4s from the U.S.S. Constellation blasted a smaller, 48,000-barrel fuel-tank area at Do Son, twelve miles southeast of Haiphong...
Tactical Triumph. Thus, more than a year after U.S. commanders in the field first urged bombing raids on the North's vital industrial targets, the U.S. last week finally attacked the hitherto-sacrosanct Hanoi-Haiphong complex. The operation was a triumph of tactical planning and destructive efficiency. Said an Air Force colonel who took part in the Hanoi raid: "We did the kind of surgical job that hasn't been done in this...
...planes previously had knocked out 15 lesser fuel dumps elsewhere in the North. Now, inside the "Red envelope," they had gone after the biggest, most lucrative targets yet. The Haiphong installation included 35 storage tanks on the surface and three underground, 16 warehouses, rows of oil barrels in an open storage area. The Hanoi storage farm, across the Red River from the city, contained 32 revetment-protected tanks, 13 supporting buildings, and railroad spurs that comprised the country's main oil-transshipment center...
...Chary of expanding the conflict, President Johnson has been markedly reluctant to use his bombers in this fashion, even during recent weeks when he has been faulted in voters' polls for not prosecuting the war with greater intensity. In fact, though last week's attacks on Hanoi-Haiphong were almost universally described as escalation, in the strictest sense they were no such thing. As a European observer in Saigon put it, they amounted to "a change in quantity but not in quality," whereas escalation in terms of modern warfare also implies technological and qualitative change...