Word: portes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been avoided for fear of provoking a confrontation with the Soviet Union, a confrontation of sorts took place when U.S. Navy flyers for the first time hammered the military compound in Haiphong's southern suburbs at which Soviet helicopters and missiles are assembled after being unloaded at the port. There were almost certainly Soviet technicians working at the compound...
...North Viet Nam and China, along with heavy attacks on Hanoi and Haiphong harbor. Since then, while bombers have not directly struck Haiphong's docks through which the bulk of North Viet Nam's war material moves, they have cut off rail and road links between the port and the rest of the country. The buffer zone and Hanoi itself have been hit sporadically, with pilots striking only at specific military targets and taking special care to avoid civilian casualties. Understandably, neither aviator favors a bombing pause. Said McConnell: "If you ever release the pressure, they will...
...North. In their pre-monsoon onslaught, U.S. flyers hammered relentlessly at North Viet Nam's lines of communication, over which its war supplies are funneled from China and the port of Haiphong to the south. Returning to the normally proscribed 20-mile-wide buffer zone along the Chinese border, U.S. airmen scored direct hits on the previously damaged Lang Son bridge, the major rail link between Hanoi and China. Venturing within one minute's flying time of the Chinese border, U.S. raiders knocked out three previously untouched highway bridges over which the North Vietnamese had been trucking supplies...
...airmen continued the strategy of trying to cut all rail and road access to the port of Haiphong so that incoming supplies will not reach the war zone. For the third time in a month, they bombed a highway bridge only eight-tenths of a mile from Haiphong's heart, this time dropped the center span. Scratching another target from the dwindling list of forbidden objectives, they hit a fuel dump at Tien Nong, seven miles northwest of Haiphong. The storage tanks were believed to hold 700 tons of oil for North Vietnamese trucks and power stations. The estimate...
...routes, so that at least one out of eight men ordered South never makes it. Moreover, 500,000 civilians have been diverted to undo what the bombers have done. While Haiphong harbor is still a prohibited target, the bombing of adjacent bridges, warehouses and marshaling yards has reduced the port to chaos; last week the one intact bridge leading out of the city was cut, thereby isolating Haiphong until the repair crews get to work. The bombing has not completely choked off men and supplies, but the military never expected...