FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3y 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3,1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE i s# ./1 #.J iiliViiiil I Convict White Slaying 41Li President frlaDaman Sees '66 as I -_____________ _______________________________________________ in July of Enterprlse' Raids Sites SIn Viet Namn SAIGON ()-The aircraft car- rier Enterprise, nuclear-powered pride of the U.S. Navy, hurled jets against Viet Cong targets yes- terday in her combat debut. Good and bad luck mingled for this big- gest of the world's warships. Sleek planes of the 85,000-ton "Big E" flew 124 missions against Red guerrillas and their installa- tions in South Viet Nam. But two were lost-one downed by guerrilla fire and the other ditched in the South China Sea after failing in five attempts to land on the 4%-acre flight deck on returning from its assignment. All the four crewmen involved were saved. Lose Two Planes Two other American planes, a Navy A-4 Skyhawk and an Air Force F-105 Thunderchief, were lost in widespread air operations. Communist gunners shot them! down during raids on two bridges in North 'Viet Nam's Red River3 Valley, one 35 miles and the othei 50 miles north of Hanoi. A spokesman'said no parachutes' were spotted by other raiders andI the two pilots were believed to have been killed. Returning crew- 1 men said they spotted four 'sur- face to air missiles in flight in the area where the F-105 was downed, but none scored hits. American spokesmen announc- ed U.S. Air Force planes attack- ed two missile sitess 25 and 401 miles northeast of Hanoi on Wed- nesday. Heavy dust and smoke prevented an immediate assess-' ment of the damage. Ground operations remained in a relative lull, with fighting lim- ited to small, sporadic incidents. Loss, of the two Enterprise planes recalled the ill-starred first war mission of another big Ameri- can military element, the Guam- based B-52 jet bombers of the U.S. Strategic Air Command. Of 30 of the' eight-engine gi- ants assigned to the initial sat- uration bombing of a Zone D jun-I gle area north of Saigon last June 18, two collided and crashed at sea, killing eight crewmen. The carrier operation was rough in spots and an undercurrent of agitation