European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 08, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday october 8, 1967 most intense of vietnamese War Doz photos show 11.12 devastation Saigon a the  released Friday a series of air Force photograph showing massive b52 saturation bombing raids have devastated parts of the demilitarized zone to an extent previously unparalleled in the Vietnam War. But officers said the communist threat to South Vietnam s Northern areas still is  pictures indicated that North vietnamese gunners we reusing abandoned villages in the Doz As base Camps to fire artillery and mortars on . Marine outposts. The b52s raided one of the fortified villages last  set of photos showed an Aroa of the Doz in mid july Early in the series of b52strikes. The raids were intensified in mid August in efforts Tocheck a communist buildup and later to take pressure off the Marine outpost of con Thien which was under artillery  set showed areas of Lush Green foliage broken by widely scattered bomb craters. A photo taken after More than 10 million pounds of bombs were dropped on the Doz in nearly 100 raid showed a solid White mass of craters. Prior to the massive strikes the Doz already was consider ered by some military commanders to be the most bombed and shelled area i Vietnam. Gen. William c. West Moreland commander of .forces in Vietnam said last month that the american conventional fire Power concentrated in the Doz in septem Ber was the heaviest in the his tory of warfare. The . Command reported that air Force tactical fighter bombers had flown 1,483 sorties an the b52 heavy bombers 55missions in and around the Doz last month. Their combined ef-fort., the command said resulted in 210 secondary explosion Sand 59 sustained fires. A sortie is an individual flight. A b52mission can include from three to nine of the eight  esses. From sept. 12 until oct. 5, spokesman said Marine fighter bomber pilots flew 1,577 Sor ties in and around the Doz dropping More than 4,000 tons of bombs on suspected communist guns and troop  cruisers and destroy cratered photos show a demilitarized one area before Bottom and after top b52 saturation bombing. The White spots in the top picture Are bomb craters. A photos worldwide tracking system to test navigating concept by Jim Strothman Cape Kennedy a anew global navigating concept that could someday Preven Aerial collisions of commercial aircraft or steer Rescue teams to a downed spaceship any where in the world will be test dec for the first time next  system also could Lead to improved regulation of ship traffic on the oceans help zoologists learn migration routes of animals and Aid in gathering data necessary for worldwide weather forecasts. Initial equipment to Demon Strate the system s feasibility has been packed aboard an unmanned spacecraft named ats 3, applications technology Satel Lite no. 3, scheduled to be launched about nov. 7 from Cape Kennedy. National aeronautics an space administration Nasa scientists said the satellite due to be placed on permanent station Over the Equator in themed Atlantic will team up with ground based transmitting stations that make up the Navy s Omega navigation  Omega receivers Are to be attached to various objects including a Mobile Van driving up and Down . Highways and a coast guard ship out of Miami  receivers Are to measure frequencies from several Omega transmitting stations then beam this information to theats-3 satellite. From the spacecraft signals will be sent Back to Nasa Goddard space flight Center in Greenbelt md., where computers will Analyse the data to calculate exactly where Onearth the Omega receivers and objects to which they reattached Are located. Once the feasibility of the concept is demonstrated wrote three Goddard scientist sin a summary of the Experiment commercial aircraft including the supersonic trans port could be tied together Inan air traffic control system capable of safely directing the anticipated air traffic for Many years to  possible application is As a recovery Aid forthe Apollo reentry vehicle they  Omega receivers aboard a manned Apollo spaceship an units of the recovery Force including helicopters it would possible for a control Center to know the relative position fall the recovery units and spacecraft the scientists  bouncing transmitting Sig nals off Earth s ionosphere each ground based Omega transmitting station will be Able to reach Omega receivers about 5,750 Miles Distant. The Complete worldwide Omega network due to become operational by 1971, will use eight Earth based stations scattered around the world. Ers from the . Navy s7th Fleet firing with eight Inch and five Inch guns destroyed nearly 100 communist gun emplacements last month spokes men added. But it was not known How Many of the emplacements actually had Artil Lery in them since the communists frequently move their guns around. The communist artillery siege of con Thien lifted sept.25. It. Gen. Robert Cushman jr., commander of . Marines in Vietnam said we be destroyed a number of  they still have some. I think they move artillery frequently and have disposed it in various areas. There is no ques Tion that our bombing efforts have hampered their supplies in addition to knocking out some  Cushman said that possibly combination of factors forced the communists to let up a least temporarily in their Artil Lery attacks on Northern Marine bases. He listed these As the tremendous air Campaign against both communist gun positions and North vietnamese Supply routes plus unseasonable Rains which apparently have made it difficult for the communists to resupply their  North vietnamese also May be in the process of moving their big guns from hidden caves which could be flooded by the heavy Rains of the Forth coming Monsoon to higher ground. Discussing abandoned North vietnamese villages used As armed Camps air Force  Bush 26, Holland mich., a photo interpreter Dis played two photos of villages both taken on the same Day last month. One Village was on the sout China sea coast just inside the Doz. The photograph showed no signs of life in the Village. Firing Bays probably for mor tars could be observed. There were Little huts with interconnecting trenches. Tables and a briefing Board could be  Force officers indicated the North vietnamese had Artil Lery pieces hidden in huts with roofs which could be removed Tolet the guns fired. When Ameri can artillerymen traced the path of one communist barrage they reported it was coming from the Village. The b52 bomb ers attacked the ares the next Day. As a contrast Bush displayed photo of a second Village four Miles to the West and just inside North Vietnam. People and Ani Mals could be seen and clothe were seen hanging outdoors. Bush also showed a photo graph taken oct. 1 to show How the North vietnamese move their artillery around. It showed an 85 my gun being towed by a truck. European edition col. James w. Campbell Usa editor in chief it. Col. F. S. Michael jr., Usan Deputy editor in chief Arnold Burnett v managing editor Elmer d. Frank production manager Henry r. Epstein circulation manager an unofficial newspaper of and Fop the . Armed forces published by the commander in chief . European command and printed daily at Darmstadt Germany. Military address the stars and stripes Apo 09175. International mail the stars and stripes Postrach 1034, 61-Darmstadt, Germany. 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