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Unlike fixed-wing fighter bombers, which fly too high and too fast to pick out specific targets and sometimes drop napalm on innocent civilians, the slow-cruising Hueys can spot ground fire in the landing zone and move in to neutralize it with discriminating fire that spares noncombatants. "If we kill one woman or a child on a mission and 90 Viet Cong," says one Huey pilot, "then that mission is a failure...
...Chinook and the Iroquois, heavy-duty helicopters that can carry combat squads; and the Caribou, a 150-m.p.h. transport plane that can haul up to 32 men. The choppers will be armed with machine guns and 2.75-in. rockets; the Mohawk observation planes may carry conventional bomb racks and napalm as well...
...continuous bombardment, reinforcements began to arrive. Blasting away with machine guns, government armored cars repeatedly attacked the entrenched Viet Cong positions at the tree line and along a canal bordering the paddies; each time they were driven back. Overhead, government planes pounded the Viet Cong with bombs and napalm, but the Communists did not break. "My God, we got a fix on one machine-gun position and made 15 aerial runs on it," said a U.S. adviser. "Every time we thought we had him, and every time that damned gunner came right back up, firing...
...troops fanned out in a long half-moon and moved toward the canals that bordered the palm jungle. AD6 attack bombers circled the paddies and tried to flush the Viet Cong into the open with rockets and napalm jelly. Suddenly a spotter plane picked out a group of fleeing Viet Cong guerrillas and dropped a smoke grenade. Fire from rifles and automatic weapons killed five of the Viet Cong, but two dozen more escaped into the trees. During the ear-shattering, three-minute exchange of fire, a farmer at the edge of the trees placidly kept plowing his field...
Nine F-10s Thunderchiefs swooped low, dropped 750-lb. bombs that disintegrated a target supply depot. A dozen F-100 Super Sabres scorched the earth with napalm. A Falcon rocket burst from an F106 Delta Dart, sent a drone aircraft to the ground in blazing bits. As a Tactical Air Command flight of F-105s sped overhead, a simulated nuclear bomb was exploded in a miniature fireball and nonradioactive mushroom cloud. As the waves of noise, heat and blast rolled across Florida's Eglin Air Force Base, Commander in Chief John Kennedy grinned from a rocking chair...