Aviation Ordinance crew members load a Phoenix laser-guided missile onto an F-14 Tomcat fighter aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier prior to a mission over Yugoslavia April 10. U.S. President Bill Clinton vowed that NATO will "persist and prevail" in Yugoslavia as the Pentagon said they would soon be sending dozens more U.S. warplanes to join nearly 300 American attack and support aircraft already in the region.

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