HAIPHONG STRIKE
IN Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SAIGON, July 8. United States Navy jet bombers yesterday scored direct hits on a fuel depot just two miles from North Vietnam’s major port of Haiphong.
United States officials said the air strike destroyed the port’s only two pumping stations which are used for unloading oil from tankers.
In other air action oyer North Vietnam, two Sovietdesigned MIG2I jet fighters unsuccessfully fired air-to-air missites at United States Air Force FlO5 Thunderchief bombers in the first use of such missiles by the Communists in the war, United States officials said.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31107, 9 July 1966, Page 15
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