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...fated 324th Division, which had been driven out of South Viet Nam last month by the U.S. Marines' Operation Hastings. Intelligence reports indicated that the 324th was no stranger to the area; rather than risk running the gauntlet of air reconnaissance and allied strongpoints along the Ho Chi Minh trail, the division had actually infiltrated into the South two months ago, moving straight across the forbidden...
...Korean War. For the third time, Navy jets returned to the big oil-storage tanks outside the port of Haiphong, claimed afterward that cumulative destruction of the complex now stood at 90%. Though monsoon clouds hampered raids north of the Red River, American planes elsewhere in Ho Chi Minh-land pounded 41 smaller fuel depots, bridges, flak sites and more than 230 barges...
...Minh has switched to Salems from Camels and Philip Morrises...
...abruptly as it had begun, the threat by North Viet Nam to put captured American airmen on trial as "war criminals" was lifted. Last week, in soothing messages, President Ho Chi Minh explained that he would "continue to pursue a humanitarian course" with the downed flyers. "No trial in view," he cabled, in answer to a query from an enterprising CBS newsman...
...born in Wildberg, West Germany, and came to the U.S. with his brother as a teen-ager in 1957; he joined the Air Force that same year, became a U.S. citizen in 1960, and was commissioned as a Navy aviator in 1964. Shot down over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos last February, it took him until June 27 to escape. He and another U.S. pilot slogged through the jungle for 20 days, living on roots and bananas, until a North Vietnamese patrol snared Dengler's companion. While the Navyman watched in horror from cover, the Reds summarily...