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...Hanoi. As for Hanoi, its reaction had a certain surrealistic quality, with broadcasts about "a big victory" and "a glorious feat of arms" in which, it claimed, seven U.S. planes were downed. Actual details of Hanoi's reaction were reported in a down-East country-weekly vein: "Misses Phuc and Due," said one broadcast, "were very busy today going back and forth to support troops with cartridges and water...
...within the envelope, an enclave anchored by the Red River town of Yen Bai in the northwest, crucial harbor ports of Haiphong and Cam Pha in the northeast and Thanh Hoa at the southern apex. Around Hanoi are a thermal power plant, an engineering facility, key bridges and the Phuc Yen airfield, where Chinese-supplied MIG-17s are based. In addition to its vast port, Haiphong's potential targets include two power plants, two cement factories, two airfields and three storage areas that hold 70% of the country's POL (petroleum, oil, lubricant) supplies. Also within the envelope...
...dark brown lines of dikes. Ahead loomed the forested mountain peaks crowned with billowing thunderheads. Then there was Hanoi: a net of tiny roads leading in, the rail line gleaming north toward China, the factories on the river's edge belching smoke, the concrete revetments of Phuc Yen airfield, behind which lurked North Viet Nam's MIGs. As the American jets flew high overhead, bypassing the capital for other targets, the enemy below was waiting...
...arrived in the mid-19th century to cut roads and rail lines through the jungle, introduce rubber and expand the rice area for the profit of Paris. But the conquerors were not suffered docilely. As early as 1912, an anti-French nationalist organization called the Viet Nam Quang Phuc Hoi (Association for the Restoration of Viet Nam) was operating from Canton...
...captain's plan later worked well enough when four Red battalions poured over Da-Phuc at night. At least part of the garrison held out underground until reinforcements arrived next morning...