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...laden RB-66 reconnaissance bomber close to the Red Chinese border. To Major Wilbur R. Dudley, 34, of Alamogordo, N. Mex., the first hint of trouble was the wink of cannon fire beneath his Phantom fighter. It came from four "silver, swept-wing and well-kept aircraft"-Communist MIG-17s, presumably Chinese. "I broke to the right," recalled Dudley after last week's action, "and pickled [dropped] my fuel tanks, and then I came up on this MIG just as it was making a firing pass on the rear...
...Hanoi's own, why the decision to commit a fledgling force of some 60 MIG-15s and 17s and only 15 MIG-215 to combat with the vastly larger and more experienced American air armada? The most likely explanation: in severing Hanoi's rail links to China, the U.S. was hitting so uncomfortably close to home that every defense had to be employed. Under the high drama of last week's dogfights, the workhorse bombers were busy as ever. Guam-based B-52s unloaded 300 tons of high explosives on the Mu Gia Pass infiltration route into...
...River town of Yen Bai in the northwest, crucial harbor ports of Haiphong and Cam Pha in the northeast and Thanh Hoa at the southern apex. Around Hanoi are a thermal power plant, an engineering facility, key bridges and the Phuc Yen airfield, where Chinese-supplied MIG-17s are based. In addition to its vast port, Haiphong's potential targets include two power plants, two cement factories, two airfields and three storage areas that hold 70% of the country's POL (petroleum, oil, lubricant) supplies. Also within the envelope: 22 SAM sites, a network of earthen irrigation dikes...
...eighth air attack on U.S. aircraft by North Koreans since the armistice of 1953. Washington's retort was blunt and potent: the presentation to the South Korean air force of 20 new F-5 fighter planes packing twice the punch at twice the speed of the marauding MIG- 17s...
...application of U.S. air-and seapower, but it would clearly be a tough, hard fight. North Viet Nam's navy, numbering about 26 PT-boats and some 50 armed junks, is inconsequential, while the straight-shooting air force mounts only 36 jets -all obsolescent MIG-15s and 17s...