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In the Navy jet attacks on the North Vietnamese patrol boats, planes from the aircraft carrier Constellation spotted one 55 miles southeast of Haiphong and lit it up with flares before dawn* When (he boat opened fire, the planes attacked with rockets and cannon. The pilots reported a direct rocket hit engulfed the torpedo boat in flames. The boat made for a nearby island where it was left beached and burning, the pilots said.Soon after in the same area, other Navy pilots were fired on by another PT boat and reported damaging the craft.
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Fairbanks Daily News Miner

Fairbanks, Alaska, US

Wed, Aug 31, 1966

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