NOVEMBER 21--Navy C-2A  planes,  dropped flares along the coast of North Vietnam to divert attention from an Army-Air Force Search and Rescue team which searched a vacated prisoner-of-war compound at Son Tay, 20 miles west of Hanoi.

The C-2A is designed to be able to land and takeoff from Navy carriers. The C-2A aircraft is also equipped three-color weather radar, an automatic carrier landing system (ACLS)