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U D7Mauled Red UnitSlips Out of TrapIrma P-ifjr If•r-fmiiilter — wvrr Insc iit I'xton-give fiprrnlionB over Nor 111 Vint Nam Friday. Both pilnU were listed as missim*.Convent tonal ground fire was reported to have accounted for the planes, fell in r the Voodoo northeast of Hanoi and theCrash Kills| Thumlrri Uief alwul -1ft miles northwest of that North Vietnamese capital.1 A spokesman said pilots spot*■ led five of North Vlel Nam's , Soviet-built surfaec-lo-air missiles in flight, but evaded all of them. Cap*. James II. Mitchell, ! 3fl. of Ogden, Utah, saw Ihree. He said two whitted aloft without exploding and the other went off about WO feet above his Thun* derchlef.75 Recruits, Crew of Sixfrom Poy* 11blowing up, snld Rkhurdo Herera, 23, a witness 1o the crash. He Is an American Flyers student pilot.Witnesses said that visibility in the area at Lhe time was limited to about two wile# because of the fog and rain. Rescuers bad to carry the deud and In-lured through muddy terrain towailing ambulances.At least two of the survivors walked away from the crash scene. rescuers said, and were picked up by a rancher about a mile away.Sevcrul bodies were found Jammed into the smoldering tail section of lhe plane ana burned beyond recognition.AH of the injured were severely burned. Several were moved to Tinker Air Force Bane Hospital In Oklahoma City and were to be flown to Brooke Army General Hospital in San Antonio. Tex., for burn treatmentThe dead were moved to Ft. Sill, 100 miles to I He west. Identification of lhe dead was withheld pending null Flea lion of next of kin.The flghler’bombers destroyed three railroad bridges, damaged one highway bridge and blasted four military storage buildings in the southern panhandle along the Bed River Valley railway line.Pilots from lhe carriers Enterprise and Kitty Hawk struck the Dong Ap military area 24 miles►south of Vinh and also bombed jthe Dien Chau railroad bridge 23 miles north of that city. Nine cargo junks were sunk and several railway and highway routes were cut.BS2g ReturnSurvivorB52s assaulted a suspected Vlel Cong concentration near the Cambodian border 70 miles northwest of Saigon for the second straight day.In Saigon, five Viet Cong terrorists attacked a traffic police substation with submachine-gun fire and grcnuder They wounded 11 policemen and two civilians.The terrorists tossed at least six grenades into the two-room building, Two of the grenades were duds. The terrorists also planted a mine. It did not explode. A demolition crew moved in to disarm it.All the group escaped, but police forced one of them to flee on foot after shouting the (ires on his motorbike.The police subs tut ten is in the capital’s 3rd Precinct near the Dan Chu Circle, just a short distance from the heart of the city.Rri
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European Stars and Stripes
Darmstadt, Hesse, DE
Sun, Apr 24, 1966
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