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...entire 16,000-mile trip. This was accomplished with ease." With refueling delays, a conventional carrier could not have made the voyage at any such forced pace. One night, shortly after arriving in the war theater last December, the Enterprise was told that South Viet Nam's Cam Ranh Bay airfield had been made inoperable by rains, and that the carrier's planes were needed for a strike in that region-175 miles away-the next morning. Wrote Miller: "Because of her capability for sustained high speed, Enterprise was launching support operations in less than nine hours after...
...most spectacular U.S. engineering project of the war is Cam Ranh Bay, a 15-mile-long, five-mile-wide deep-water harbor 190 miles north of Saigon. Seven months ago it was a pristine, sun-blanched wasteland; today it is a frenetic modern port that rivals Charleston's in size. There, last week, building supplies, ammunition and barrels of fuel were stacked endlessly on the beaches near rows of new ware houses and barracks. On a flattened hilltop, antiaircraft Hawk missiles stood at the ready. Nearby, giant C-130 cargo planes and F-4 Phantom jet fighters returning from...
Pride of Cam Ranh Bay is the new DeLong pier. Three hundred feet by 90 ft., it was towed from South Carolina, arrived Oct. 30, and was in use 45 days later. To anchor it, caissons were sunk 138 ft. into the bay's sandy bottom; an 850-ft.-long causeway from shore to pier was fashioned out of 27,500 cu. yds. of rock that had to be blasted out of a nearby hill. "It was the most spectacular and important project we've had to date," said Colonel Hart. It also was one of the most...
...pristine Cam Ranh Bay, where czarist Russia's fleet took shelter just before its crushing defeat by the Japanese navy in 1905, combat engineers turned the natural harbor into a major port. Twenty miles down the coast, the "Screaming Eagles" of the 101st Airborne Brigade began operating as a mobile strike force. In the guerrilla-infested jungles around Saigon prowled the 1st Infantry Division ("Big Red One"), the 173rd Airborne, a 1,200-man battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, a 250-man New Zealand artillery unit...
...sailors, 17,500 airmen, 45,000 marines, 250 coast guardsmen-in the country. More than 1,000 Army helicopters and light aircraft are his responsibility, as well as some 550 U.S. Air Force planes-soon to be increased to 1,200-and a Navy seadrome at Cam Ranh...