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...first time, U.S. pilots were allowed to seek out targets of opportunity instead of limiting their attacks to targets chosen in Washington. They were quick to exercise their new option. In one raid, eight F-105 Thunderchiefs found a break in the clouds over a radar site at Vinhson, swooped down to destroy it, then turned to sink three armed junks nearby...
...week's end the U.S. Air Force and Navy combined for a two-wave strike at an ammunition depot at Phuvan and a supply staging area at Vinhson. Nearly 120 planes from land and sea pounded the two targets with 750-Ib. bombs, 20-mm. cannon and rockets. It was the third air strike above the 17th parallel in six days...
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