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...which dropped a bridge twelve miles southwest of Dong Hoi and blasted a ferry landing near Quang Khe. Only minutes later, on target-a highway-ferry complex at Thanh Hoa-were Air Force F-105s, and another Air Force wing was soon battering a cluster of barges with 20-mm. cannon. The first day's bombing took a toll of three U.S. planes shot down by antiaircraft fire-one measure of the use to which Hanoi had put the pause...
...Hanoi-Haiphong area alone, half of them manned by Russian crews and many equipped with sophisticated new radar systems. MIG-21s have been spotted on airstrips in the North. In the South, there was evidence that the Viet Cong guerrillas might be equipped for the first time with 20-mm. and 37-mm. antiaircraft guns, which could seriously threaten the U.S. planes and helicopters that fly vital strafing and bombing missions. One U.S. F-4 Phantom hit by ground fire last week limped back to Danang airbase with a three-foot hole in its fuselage-big enough to have been...
...grey gun cars bristling with automatic weapons, and are often preceded by diesel-powered machine-gun-bearing armored cars called con rua, or "turtles," by the Vietnamese. But armored cars are easily blown up, and even turtles can be turned back by heavy machine-gun fire or a 57-mm. recoilless-rifle shell...
...rebels claim that 350 air force and army troops surrounded the hotel and began blasting away. The military insists that the rebels opened up first at a Jeep patrol. Either way, the soldiers were soon spraying the building with .50-cal. machine guns, then pounding it with 75-mm. shells from three tanks that rumbled over from the base. In the hotel, civilian bystanders cowered in hallways and closets, while rebel snipers in the top stories methodically cut down advancing air force troops...
...epidemic that has forced the evacuation of 800 infected servicemen: 37,500 gallons were borrowed from other bases. Twice the U.S.S. Kimbro set sail for Viet Nam from the Philippines, only to be ordered back because of lack of dock space for its cargo of rockets, bombs and 175-mm. shells. Last week the ship finally made it, and just in time: the troops at Qui Nhon were running low on 175-mm. ammo...