Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the first five months of this year, southbound enemy truck traffic has doubled over that during the same 1965 period, while delivery of Red supplies south of the 17th parallel has jumped 150% and of troops 120%, to an estimated 4,500 men a month. As evidence, McNamara displayed a recent infra-red reconnaissance photograph of a 51-truck convoy creeping bumper-to-bumper at night down a North Vietnamese section of the trail. Said he: "Some of these routes are new, some have been widened and upgraded for all-weather truck use. Bypasses have been built, and bamboo...
...Truck and barge convoys obviously cannot move without oil-which North Viet Nam does not produce or even refine, depending wholly on imports, mostly from Russia. In recent months, these imports have soared by 60%, and Hanoi has begun dispersing and burying its vulnerable storage tanks, as clearly shown by reconnaissance pictures. Given the "perishable nature" of such a target, the Secretary added crisply, "it became much more desirable to attack it now than it had been earlier...
Given the fact that the U.S. has long been hitting every means of transport from truck to barge in the North, the decision to bomb major sources of the fuel on which they depend is a compelling, consistent progression. In any case, as Vice President Hubert Humphrey observed last week, even though "there will be friends who disagree with us, it is our men who are there. It is our men who are facing Communist bullets...
...fact speak saroya: hit by crippling fire, he bailed out. Later, he was identified by Hanoi as Captain Murphy Neal Jones, 28, from Louisiana, and described as wounded in the hand and face. By way of celebrating his survival, his captors paraded Jones at night in a truck through the streets of Hanoi, under the glare of spotlights and the threats of fist-shaking mobs...
...London's docks, a forklift and three men can accomplish as much work as a 14-man gang once did; dockworkers have accepted forklifts, but still insist that the 14-man gang follow each truck around...