World: Craters Within Craters

U.S. planes punctuated the election victory in the South with the heaviest raids to date against the North. On one clear day last week, the skies were scorched with a record 171 missions.

"It's getting mighty hard to tell the new craters from the old," remarked a pilot returning from the battered Panhandle. Cratered anew were the Quang Khe missile complex, the Due Tho storage area, and a spread of staging areas, oil dumps and antiaircraft sites. Though flak has thinned considerably in the region, two U.S. planes were shot down. As one pilot's parachute was buffeted by tricky wind currents,...

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