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...What I Had Been Taught." Only a few weeks ago, Risner almost got killed. But his professionalism saved him. He now describes the experience with almost clinical detachment: "The target that day was a radar station in North Viet Nam. I was janking [changing altitude and direction continuously] when I got hit by ground fire. They got me four feet behind the cockpit, in the engine. I had to make a 180° turn to get out over the sea. When I got to the coastline, I figured I was safe. But in the water was an enemy gunboat...
...answers seemed to be 1) faulty tactics, and 2) inadequate radar...
...armament-eight 750-lb. bombs and 2,000 lbs. of cannon shells in each aircraft. High above and to the north, F-100 Super Sabre jets flew combat air patrol. Their mission: to forewarn of the approach of enemy aircraft and if possible to intercept. The Super Sabres' radar attention was directed mostly toward the north, where Hanoi's jet airfields are located (the Donghoi airfield, to the south, had been knocked out by U.S. bombing...
Encounter No. 2. The MIGs obviously had been directed by ground-control radar, probably from three stations that had the U.S. flights perfectly triangulated. The airborne radar in the F-100 patrol planes plainly did not offer equivalent, skywide coverage-but the U.S. has plenty of radar planes that do, and they presumably will be brought into use in the very near future...
That encounter may have indicated that Hanoi's Red rulers are worried that their hard-won light-industrial complex-located between Hanoi and the port city of Haiphong-might be the U.S.'s next target. Other U.S. strikes last week hit at half a dozen air-defense radar stations throughout North Viet Nam, blinding the electronic eyes that might later be used to direct Communist interceptors against attacking American forces. Within South Viet Nam itself, U.S. jets and prop-driven fighter-bombers flying from ships and shore continued their pounding of the Communist Viet Cong...