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...been patrolling South Viet Nam's coast since last summer. The Coast Guard cutter Point Grey intercepted a 120-ft., 100-ton freighter-steaming without running lights and laden with ammunition-off Ca Mau Peninsula. When the freighter refused to heave to, Point Grey opened up with 81-mm. mortars, ran the suspect aground...
...many as 40 trucks a day use the gravel-topped Sihanouk Trail. The trail bristles with 12.7-mm. antiaircraft emplacements, and other sources say that there are at least 30 Viet Cong supply depots strung along its length. A dozen North Vietnamese regiments are currently poised for action in South Viet Nam, and of these, at least four are inside Cambodia. Half of the remaining eight are within easy marching distance of the Cambodian sanctuary and the supply lines of the Sihanouk Trail. Its strategic value to the Communists is as an alternate route to the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
...Russian fighter has another more atavistic advantage. It is equipped with a pair of 30-mm cannons built into the fuselage. The Phantoms can mount 20-mm. cannons, but only in external wing pods, which are not as stable and accurate as fuselage-mounted cannons. The Phantom was designed to stand off at some distance and zero in electronically. In the duels so far, the MIGs have been unwilling to play that game, are ducking in close where missiles are virtually useless. An advanced Phantom with integral cannons is under development; in the meantime, for all the U.S. success thus...
...Base showed every sign of marching into the city. When he heard of this, Colonel Dam Quang Yeu, commander of Vietnamese army troops at Hoi An, 15 miles to the south, decided to march on Danang to block the paratroopers. With several hundred men, 13 armored carriers, four 155-mm. howitzers and enough ammunition to blow up a city, he set up a command post four miles outside the Danang air base and trained his guns...
...Breakfast. The Hueys swept back in to haul the troopers out, but were kept off by the intense Red fire. So instead, a full company of Flying Horsemen was helilifted in. Skyraiders and Hueys covered the Horsemen from the air, a battery of the Air Cav's 105-mm. howitzers was lifted into range to provide an all-night barrage, and another Air Cav company dropped in for breakfast with the defenders. That was enough for the enemy, who hastily retreated across the Cambodian border, leaving 158 dead...