USS Forrestal (CV-59)
On Yankee Station
The target for today is Haiphong Harbor.* As you are well aware, this port is the enemy's main receiving station for foreign military aid of every kind.
We spend a lot of time blowing up trucks on the Ho Chi Minh Trail--when we can find them. Here we'll have a chance to destroy the goods when they're still in big piles, all in one place. One bomb here can be worth a hundred of them later on.
Your A-4 is on waist cat 3. Your squadron--VA-106 (Gladiators)--and planes fr om VA-83 (Rampagers) are making up a 29-plane Alpha strike. Launch when commanded, join up as tail-end Charlie and go hit 'em where it hurts.
See you back at the boat.
