U.S. BOMBS INDUSTRY
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright? SAIGON, March 10. American warplanes bombed North Vietnam’s heavy industry for the first time today, United Press International reported.
Military spokesmen said Air Force Jets dumped tons of bombs on the Nguyen steel plant near Hanoi.
The attack by FlO5 Thunderchiefs put into action the pleas of American military commanders for months for a direct assault against the industry supporting the Communist forces.
The big steel works, the largest in North Vietnam, had not been touched before.
Air Opposition The military spokesman said the Floss shot down one North Vietnamese MiG fighter in an air battle over the steel plant Another MiG was listed as a probable “kill” and a third jet was damaged, he added. The decision to bomb nor.military targets follows recent moves to build up pressure against North Vietnam by the mining of rivers, the naval bombardment of inland targets and the use of artil lery firing from South Vietnam.
it also coincides with a general intensification of the ground war in South Vietnam by American troops over the last three weeks in which United States and Communist casualties have reached their highest levels of the war.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31316, 11 March 1967, Page 14
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