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No. 1 Strong Man: The Asia-First Admiral
Kemler, Edgar | July 17, 1954 issue

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There, is still something bizarre and unreal about an admiral's now defunct plan for American intervention in Indo-China. Two aircraft carriers, the Essex and the Boxer, were, deployed in the Gulf of Tonkin; and long-range bombers in the Philippines and Okinawa were stripped for battle. On the morning of April 28, 1954, a force of 500 planes was to drop tactical A-bombs on the Vietminh troops besieging Fort Dienbienphu. If, as seemed probable, the first strike failed to break the siege, others were to follow.

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BATTLES; AIRCRAFT carriers; WARSHIPS; UNITED States; INDOCHINA; TONKIN, Gulf of
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