From the S&S archives:
B-52s strike again close to Cambodia

SAIGON — Air Force B-52 bombers Tuesday struck enemy positions near the Cambodian border for the third straight day in support of Operation Birmingham.

The target consisted of a suspected enemy storage and supply area in the Republic of Vietnam's Tay Ninh province about 75 miles northwest of Saigon.

U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine pilots pounded the enemy with 305 other combat sorties Monday, a U.S. military spokesman reported Tuesday.

The Navy accounted for 130 of the sorties, 88 by Marine pilots and the remaining 87 sorties by Air Force pilots. Pilots and forward air controllers said there were also eight secondary explosions and damage to many enemy structures and buildings.

Over north Vietnam, Navy pilots flew 27 missions hitting bridges, barges, storage areas, radar sites and river traffic. Air Force pilots flew eight missions against highways, staging areas, storage areas and a radar site.

(The spokesman said a Navy A4E Skyraider was shot down by enemy ground fire 10 miles northeast of Vinh, AP reported. The pilot was seen to parachute, but he was not picked up. He is listed as missing in action.)

Marine pilots in I, Corps of the. Republic were credited with possibly killing five or more Viet Cong and destroying or damaging an undetermined number of enemy buildings.

Two Air Force B-57 Canberra crews destroyed a Viet Cong camp 40 miles southeast of Da Nang Monday afternoon. Three secondary explosions were sighted and several Viet Cong were believed killed.

Capt. Merlin C. Smith, 31, of Lafayette, La., was the forward air controller directing strike. He said the B-57s destroyed a camp that had been reported by a Vietnamese province chief.

The chief told American military commanders he estimated a battalion of Viet Cong were in the stronghold at the time of the strike. Smith reported 36 buildings destroyed, four damaged, 1 one big secondary explosion and two smaller ones.