- Title: CAMBODIA: THE GOVERNMENT'S TWO-PLANE AIR FORCE FIGHTS ON AGAINST VIET CONG
- Date: 2nd February 1971
- Summary: 1. GV Piston engined aircraft taxing past gutted hangar 0.05 2. GV Gutted hangars & wrecked aircraft fuselage & other debris 0.14 3. GV Piston-engined aircraft at end of runway 0.18 4. SCU Fitter checking rocket canisters under aircraft wings(2 shots) 0.32 5. SV Rockets fitted into canister 0.38 6. SV Fitters loading aircraft machi
- Embargoed: 17th February 1971 13:00
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- Location: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
- Country: Cambodia
- Reuters ID: LVA9AEWBAOFBCJMJQXPTFFT5WEKC
- Story Text: Cambodian forces are currently fighting with only two World War Two fighter-bombers for air support--and Visnews cameraman Lee Yosep has flown in one of them for exclusive coverage of an air strike.
The Cambodian Air Force was virtually wiped out by last month's daring Viet Cong raid on Phnom Penh Airport. But the critical shortage of air power is counter-balanced by current pledges of heavy American air support for Cambodian troops.
Lee Yosep found Phnom Penh airport still a shambles. Inside the gutted hangars, he filmed the wreckage of Cambodian MIG-17 jets which had been destroyed in the commando attack.
The two remaining T-28 piston-engined fighter-bombers are in the air almost continuously flying support missions for ground forces.
Lee managed to squeeze aboard during one air strike and produced a real scoop -- the first coverage of a Cambodian attack to be filmed from the air.
He also discovered that the Cambodian aircraft were guided to their target by an American spotter flying in a light observation
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