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...hurting Hanoi and that the best way to get peace talks started is not to relax the pressure but to keep it up. Accordingly, he moved to tighten the screws "another notch or two," as he put it. From bases in Thailand, U.S. F-105s streaked to the big Thai Nguyen steel complex 28 miles north of Hanoi and damaged it severely (see THE WORLD...
...Hanoi and the 25-mile zone bordering Red China, which is increasingly used as a sanctuary for truck convoys bringing supplies from China. Last week the U.S. decided to raise the North's costs considerably by striking hard at a target that had hitherto been spared: the huge Thai Nguyen iron and steel complex 38 miles north of Hanoi...
...Thai Nguyen was Hanoi's much-publicized pride and joy, symbolizing its hopes for an industrialized future. Built with Chinese aid, equipment and technicians, its 48 large buildings were scattered over nearly three square miles. It employed 200 engineers, 2,000 technicians, and some 12,000 workers on three shifts. Destined to be the most modern metalworks in all of Southeast Asia when completed in 1969, Thai Nguyen was already turning out 200,000 tons of cast iron, supplying 80% of North Viet Nam's iron and steel alloy needs. It also had a vital role in Hanoi...
...Granddaddy. The Pentagon had long wanted approval to bomb Thai Nguyen. But not until the failure of peace probes during the Tet holiday truce did Lyndon Johnson give the scramble signal to the Air Force. Reconnaissance of the target and bad weather, which has limited strikes over North Viet Nam since January, held up the attack until last week. Then, as the monsoon clouds began to break up, U.S. Navy A-4 Skyhawks from the carriers Kitty Hawk and Ticonderoga began hitting the usual railyards and petroleum dumps while U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers based in Thailand got ready...
...480th plane lost over North Viet Nam in the air war), the U.S. jets unloaded more than 80 tons of bombs, mostly 750-pounders, on the target. Smoke billowed 5,000 ft. into the air, preventing a damage assessment. Next day the planes went back to Thai Nguyen again, with a second 80 tons of high explosives. At about the same time, carrier-based bombers hit a surface-to-air missile storage base, a power plant and an ammunition depot near Hanoi and Haiphong...