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...Break off, break off!" But transmission apparently was garbled and the two remaining F-105s flew on unaware-as close to sitting ducks as Thunderchiefs can get. The MIGs made a fast firing pass, then swooshed off to the north and escaped in the mist. One Thunderchief took 20-mm. cannon hits in its hydraulic system, the other in its engine. Both limped some 20 miles until they got over the Gulf of Tonkin, where the pilots bailed out. Major Frank E. Bennett drowned, and, after a 48-hour search, Captain James A. Magnusson was listed as missing...
...result, four California youths set fire to an acre of the Angeles National Forest with a blast from a German-made, 20-mm. antitank gun that they had bought from a Culver City firm for $150. And last September, the FBI seized four Russian-army Tokarev semi-automatic rifles that had been shipped to members of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi...
...contact with the Russians at their East Berlin headquarters, agreed to photograph classified documents for them in return for $300 a month. A few months later, Johnson recruited Mintkenbaugh, also in the Army in Berlin, to work with him. A male Russian agent named "Paula" gave Mintkenbaugh a 35-mm. camera, along with a quick course in developing microdots and hiding microfilm...
...week's end the U.S. Air Force and Navy combined for a two-wave strike at an ammunition depot at Phuvan and a supply staging area at Vinhson. Nearly 120 planes from land and sea pounded the two targets with 750-Ib. bombs, 20-mm. cannon and rockets. It was the third air strike above the 17th parallel in six days...
Wives & Desperation. Then shock troops dragged wicker baskets full of grenades and ammo through holes blown in the wire, knocked out a sandbagged bunker on Kannack's northeast corner with one shot from a 57-mm. recoilless rifle, then blasted through the camp's bloody southeast angle to carry a string of defensive bunkers. All told, Kannack's defenders lost 33 dead and 27 wounded-most of them in the first assault...