Word: ticonderoga
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...Maddox within clear sight of her lookouts, and kept closing, despite warning shots. The battle was on. By the time it was over, one boat was dead in the water and presumed sinking; two others were damaged by F-8 Crusader jets, called in from the U.S. aircraft carrier Ticonderoga. Maddox suffered minimal damage. The Pentagon has pictures of the action, and no one questions this part of the story. The destroyer Turner Joy, a 2,850-tonner, was sent to reinforce Maddox, and the patrol-now known grandiloquently as Task Group 72.1-went on as before...
...guns: "I recall we were hopping around up there, trying to figure out what they [Turner Joy] were shooting at. We fired a lot of rounds, but it was strictly a defensive tactic." It could also have been a malfunction on the radar screen. Aircraft from the carriers Ticonderoga and Constellation were overhead by this time and saw nothing much either. However, four seamen aboard Turner Joy and one man aboard Maddox did report seeing silhouettes of a ship, and sailors said they saw a searchlight stab momentarily through the darkness. There were also sonar reports of as many...
...paintings and furnishings from his parents' Manhattan apartment. (They died in 1960.) The new building joins eight Early American houses, eight barns and sheds, a general store, meetinghouse, schoolhouse, jail, smithy, covered bridge, railroad station, steam locomotive, lighthouse, sawmill, hunting lodge, and the 892-ton Lake Champlain sidewheeler Ticonderoga. Most of the buildings had been dismantled, brick by brick and board by board, transported from their original sites in and near New England, and rebuilt at Shelburne...
...Haiphong raids hit two thermal power plants-one barely a mile from the downtown business center, the other 2.1 miles away. Nearly 160 Navy jets took part, swooping off the decks of the attack carriers Kitty Hawk and Ticonderoga to strike at noon and again 4½ hours later. Dumping almost 150 tons of bombs on the plants, the strikes destroyed 80% of their generating capacity-and 12% of the North's total power supply-without losing a single plane. As one pilot said on his return to the Kitty Hawk: "There are no lights tonight in Haiphong...
...prisoner was Lieut. Commander Richard A. Stratton, 35, a U.S. Navy fighter pilot from the U.S.S. Ticonderoga who was downed over the North last Jan. 5. His Pavlovian performance in Hanoi-witnessed last month by American Freelance Photographer Lee Lockwood and reported last week in LIFE-raised fears that the Communists were once again resorting to the inhuman brainwashing techniques whose widespread use during the Korean War horrified the world. U.S. Ambassadorat-Large W. Averell Harriman warned that "it would be a matter of the gravest concern" if that were the case, and the State Department demanded that Hanoi allow...