Word: materiel
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Some military sources feel that the U.S. will eventually need four divisions in the Delta, but the Pentagon scoffs at that figure, insists it will be much lower. The White House is also concerned by the amount of materiel now being stockpiled by the North Vietnamese in the demilitarized zone, and there is some speculation that U.S. troops may-have to go in and clean it out. Military commanders in Viet Nam are counting on a reserve call-up to make regular units available to them before the end of the year, and the Senate Appropriations Committee last week urged...
...refuel the U.S. Air Force jets that fly more than 60% of all American raids over the North and Laos from four other Thai bases. Also to be stationed at U-Tapao are a troop carrier wing and an air transport unit, for funneling American men and materiel into the area. The thick new strip will be the only one in the region designed to support the B-52 bombers, which now fly 5,200-mile round trips from Guam for their missions in Viet Nam. Though there are no present plans to make U-Tapao a full-time...
...complexes. At least 50% of North Viet Nam's remaining POL (for petroleum, oil, lubricants) supplies went up in smoke, leaving the country with reserves adequate for only eight weeks-if they are not bombed again. The loss will make incalculably more difficult the flow of troops and materiel for the Communists' ever-more-desperate war in South Viet Nam. Though U.S. planners had feared that a dozen or more aircraft might be shot down, only one-an F-105 fighter-bomber hit over Hanoi-was lost...
...trail has not checked the relentlessly increasing infiltration from the North-"the foundation" of Hanoi's aggression. The Communists have feverishly built and camouflaged new roads to the South, imported an estimated 15,000 trucks from their allies, and made increasing use of motorized barges to haul war materiel down the country's maze of inland waterways...
...North Vietnamese regulars now in the South. Whether by truck, oxcart, bicycles carrying up to 500 Ibs., elephant or pack, it is an increasingly perilous journey, taking three to four months at times, under daily U.S. bombing and strafing. Perhaps as much as 50% of the materiel intended for what Hanoi calls "the big front line" (as distinguished from "the big rear" in North Viet Nam) never reaches South Viet Nam, thanks to the relentless bombing of the route...