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Thorns in the Heart I

37mm, 57mm, 85mm and 100mm guns with some of them were
rada-directed Anti Aircraft Artilleries, which they were firing as
rapidly as they could be, adding with those weapons were the
Automatic Weapons SA-2s, SA-7s, and SAMs. The shells exploded in
the air making flak and very thick around the aircraft and follow after
the arts. Also MIG-15s, MIG-17s and MIG-21s aircraft fighter was
already flying in the air and will intercept to threat more American
air lives at any time they could.
It made American pilot fighter extremely to be in danger while
flying over North territory. American air strike pilots had 10 to 17
minutes over their enemy target only. Therefore, they used all of
their experience and knowledge of tactical air strike warfare such as
simultaneously increase aircraft speed from 500 knots to 10 match,
flew from high altitude and rolling down then fast depart away from
target after they released their weapons as planned, while the
enemy ground target defensive fire was extremely heavy with the
hundred of 37mm, 57mm, 85mm, 100mm Radar controlled Anita
Aircraft Artillery, Radar controlled SA-2, and SAMs. Plus MIG-15,
MIG-17, and MIG-21 that they intercepted in the air. Also, pilots
must set an easterly course across southern North Vietnam toward
the Gulf of Tonkin (Vinh Bac-Viet) about 50 miles long, where their
friend flow all over to make the emergency rescue if necessary.
Some of them turned back their base in safety with broken the
tail section or a lot of small holes on aircraft. Some of them could not
get lucky, their aircrafts exploded like the red-glowing fireball in the
air over the target and dropped onto ground or river. Some of them
made a little farther then jumped out of aircraft and to be the
Missing in Action man (MIA).

It was the biggest contest between Hanoi with Soviet-supplied
modern defensive weapons and the U.S. Air Force offensive. It cost a
lot of lives soldiers of both sides and civilians in North Vietnam by
bombing mistarget.
The soldiers at both sides have learned to be the honest, dead
will be the honor, follow their leader and satisfy for country and love
without question. The politicians advanced those ideas to get all the

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