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Tobruk is a movie for the ages-the teen-ages that think of World War II as just another chapter in their high school history courses. Here it is again, kids, meticulously re-created with tanks, cannons and prop-driven airplanes, just the way it happened back in 1942 when the Allies were trying to blow up Rommel's fuel supply. The campaign in the Sahara Desert crosses a wasteland so real you could swear you were on location in California. There are suntanned battalions, a band of Italians, Allied traitors, German haters-there's everything but suspense...
Ready for a Shift. All the while, Red fighter planes kept their distance. One exception: two prop-driven aircraft spotted by radar heading toward the cruiser U.S.S. Long Beach in the Gulf of Tonkin. Two Phantom F-4Bs streaked off the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk and downed them with air-to-air missiles. Though the skies were otherwise clear of enemy planes, U.S. pilots wondered how long they would stay that way. In the past two months North Viet Nam has built its air force from 70 to 110 MIGs. Curiously enough, North Vietnamese MIGs have also been spending...
...estimated 5,500 to 7,000 men each month. In an effort to stem the tide, Guam-based B-52 Stratoforts last week carpet-bombed infiltration outlets in South Viet Nam's "Zone C" for the eighth time in eleven days. But only Ma and his antique, prop-driven T-28s have been hitting the Sihanouk Trail...
...distinct personality, a warmth. Dependable, forgiving, attentive, gracious and benevolent." What sounds like a paraphrase of the Boy Scout oath is the authors' sentimental tribute to an airplane, the DC-3, the twin-engine, 190 m.p.h. prop-driven craft that first flew 30 years ago and has entered Valhalla under its own power. Of the 10,000 built from 1936 to 1946, some 5,000 are still in the air, faithfully serving 174 airlines in 70 countries. In the heart of the jet age, the DC-3 still accounts for nearly one-third of the world...
...retaliation for a torpedo-boat attack on two Seventh Fleet destroyers in the Tonkin Gulf. Regular bombings began last February; since then U.S. and South Vietnamese planes have flown more than 50,000 sorties against the enemy. The 800 planes in use range from the old prop-driven Skyraider, whose fond jockeys insist that it can fly home with nearly as much enemy lead in it as the four tons of bombs it can carry out, to the droop-nosed, brutal-looking ("It's so damn ugly it's beautiful") F-4B Navy Phantom, at 1,700 m.p.h...