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Keeping the North Vietnamese air force in MIG fighters is turning out to be a losing proposition for Moscow. In a single day's dogfighting last week, Thailand-based U.S. Air Force pilots downed seven MIG-17s, equaling the war's record set on Jan. 2; they probably destroyed two more. Five MIGs were shot down in the previous week and another eight were destroyed on the ground, bringing the two-week total to at least 20 enemy jets. Last week's luckless MIG challenge came while U.S. pilots hit barracks and storage areas four miles from...
Colonel Robin Olds, 44, a 23-kill ace in World War II (TIME, Jan. 13), became the first U.S. pilot to destroy two MIGs over Viet Nam, downing a fast MIG-21 in a swirling, 20-minute aerial free-for-all near Hanoi...
...went to work last week chewing up the spider web of rail yards and lines north of the bridge. Time and again they hit other key targets on Hanoi's outskirts, including the Ha Dong army barracks, which had previously been immune from attack. U.S. planes knocked five MIG's out of the sky and smashed at least eight more at their bases in persistent attacks that in two weeks have accounted for the destruction of nearly one-sixth of the North's 120-MIG fleet...
...were thick with U.S. planes - and with Communist flak. U.S. pilots flew an average of 243 sorties a day, hitting several targets that they had never be fore been permitted to bomb, but care fully avoiding throwing any knockout punches. As the monsoon rains cleared, U.S. jets blasted MIG airfields for the first time and hit new targets in the port city of Haiphong and around Hanoi. For the time being, they left un touched the large Phuc Yen strip north west of Hanoi, the base for nearly three-fourths of the North's 120 MIG fighters...
Carrier-based Navy jets screeched through MIG-cluttered skies to hit the MIG base at Kep, northeast of Hanoi, with 250-lb. bombs and cluster bombs that spray thousands of lethal metal fragments. In two raids, they scored moderate-to-heavy damage to the run way, control tower and oil-storage tanks, but apparently caught few, if any, MIGs in their hardstands; an orange cloud of billowing smoke was visible al most 20 miles away. Flying out of bases in Thailand, a dozen Air Force Phantom jets then scorched the new MIG base at Hoa Lac, damaged or destroyed...