Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Stephens said it was obvious that the attacks on MIG bases were not going to affect the infiltration of men and supplies to the South. Such actions might raise the morale of a few South Vietnamese generals, he said, but at the cost of violating the concept of limited war and inviting a response from China...
Donald W. Meaders '69, one of those opposed to the resolution, said after the meeting, "I find it appalling that at this university not even the Republican Club has the courage to support American bombing of such obvious military targets as MIG bases and power plants...
...North's oil and such larger equipment as trucks, tractors and generators. Russia has equipped almost the entire North Vietnamese air-defense network, including some 8,500 antiaircraft guns, about 25 surface-to-air (SAM) missile batteries, and squadrons of jet fighters that range from the new model MIG-21s to Korean War-vintage MIGs. It has also supplied some 20 patrol boats for harbor and canal duty plus a number of mammoth helicopters that can carry up to 100 persons...
Shrinking Sanctuaries. No MIGs showed up over Thai Nguyen, but as the first day's mission was returning to Thailand, Captain Max C. Brestel became locked in what he called "an old-fashioned dogfight" with four MIG-17s. Brestel damaged one MIG and shot down another. The confirmed kill brought to 37 the number of enemy jets downed by U.S. planes (against ten U.S. losses in air combat), and represented the first MIG nailed since January...