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DeVoss, a Saigon correspondent for just three months, received a baptism by 122-mm. rocket fire when he was caught in a barrage outside ARVN headquarters in Chon Thanh. He covered the air war the hard way-as a passenger aboard an A-37 on a 90-minute dive-bombing mission over An Xuyen province. "It was Cinerama and Coney Island wrapped into one as we hurtled toward the earth at 300 m.p.h., then, glued to the seat, soared skyward," says DeVoss. The Air Force had thoughtfully lent him a pistol, knife, rope, radio, parachute and other survival items...
...Saigon, but the city itself is of little military worth. After a two-week siege, An Loc was a shattered city of rotting corpses and walking wounded. From tree-covered cliffs and rubber plantations overlooking the town, North Vietnamese gunners poured in round after round of artillery, mortar, rocket and tank fire. Several shells landed on the overcrowded hospital, located near the South Vietnamese army headquarters. "The wounded were everywhere," said South Vietnamese Captain Le Van Tarn, one of the fortunate ones to be evacuated. "Children, pregnant women bleeding, the old. They were dying and no one was able...
...Apollo 16 launch, but what really grabbed him was his visit to the launch pad the night before, accompanied by Apollo 15 Astronaut David Scott and a bottle of champagne. He forgot to open the bottle, so moved was he by "the white, tender body of the rocket, supported by the clumsy, tender hands of its red tower. It was like big brother embracing his sister before going a long way. It was a great impression." And that was not all. The tower was also "a sea crab that accidentally found on the bottom of the sea a rare...
...nothing about it. The astronauts were in no immediate danger, but under mission rules the command module's primary and secondary guidance systems must both be operational before a lunar landing can be attempted. The reason: if the command ship's engine cannot be controlled, the rocket power of the lunar lander is necessary to get the reunited ships back to earth. In fact, that so-called "life raft mode" was used to bring home the stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft two years...
...euphoria began to fade. VC sappers dynamited a culvert on Highway 13, five miles north of Lai Khe, shattering the comforting illusion that the road was safe. Two patrols of airborne troopers marching toward An Loc were badly mauled in ambushes. Then at 11 a.m. the next day, enemy rockets and mortar shells pelted the column's artillery. ARVN tanks blazed back furiously, but with little success. An ARVN tank was hit by a B40 rocket and exploded into a blazing wreck. Tac air was called in, and for 40 minutes, VNAF Skyraiders, U.S. Air Force Phantoms...