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To guide a laser bomb, a Phantom has to fly the same slow left-hand circle over the guns until the bomb hits.
Captain Reid Fallon flies the circle. Major Milo Dunphy holds the spot through the Zot, a laser sight bolted to the rear canopy. When flak makes Fallon break the turn and the bombs land in the river, he writes the report exactly as it happened. Colonel Dahlgren splits the crew. Dunphy goes to Dirk Halloran to run the laser, and Fallon gets Lieutenant Sonny Gaines, a back-seater who answers every question with three ways to do it.
The target is a bridge on the Ma River that the crews call the Teapot, with a hamlet sitting low behind a dike. Major Đặng Hữu Tùng once drove rivets in the great bridge at Hàm Rồng, and he knows how bridges die. His rangefinder operator, Sen, has watched the circle. Always the same height, always the same speed. She says you could set a clock by it.
