Word: 105s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover. The fighters were flown from Okinawa to South Korea, where they were kept on "strip alert," ready to go to Banner's aid. Inexplicably, Admiral Johnson did not request the same protection for Pueblo, which was stationed far closer to the Korean mainland. Instead, the F-105s remained on stand-by alert on Okinawa, 900 miles from the hapless spy ship. It was no excuse that, even if the aircraft had been ready to defend Pueblo, Lyndon Johnson might well have refused them permission to take off for the very same reason that he embargoed the Navy...
...bombers just before and after they hit the North. From Takhli fly EB-66 electronic-warfare jets with special equipment that can detect the "fingerprints" of enemy radar in the sky and then send out a signal that fouls up the screen below. Flying out of Takhli, F-105s armed with radar-guided Shrike missiles have the job of knocking out SAM sites...
...badly hurting Hanoi and that the best way to get peace talks started is not to relax the pressure but to keep it up. Accordingly, he moved to tighten the screws "another notch or two," as he put it. From bases in Thailand, U.S. F-105s streaked to the big Thai Nguyen steel complex 28 miles north of Hanoi and damaged it severely (see THE WORLD...
...Americans on the hill did. So sudden was the attack that the Air Cav defenses were quickly overrun. While some of the enemy worked at destroying the howitzers, others ran from bunker to bunker, tossing in grenades and shooting survivors. Gradually, the remaining defenders pulled back around the two 105s still in U.S. hands. The guns were cranked down to point-blank range; high-explosive shells, white phosphorus and "beehives," the deadly modern version of grapeshot, were fired at the enemy. Helicoptered reinforcements soon arrived to reclaim the hill with its burden of heavy casualties, including 117 enemy dead...
...MIGs, were designed more as bombers than fighters. And in both cases, the American pilots made use of their greater speed to surprise the Communist planes from behind. Lieut. Karl W. Richter, 23, of Holly, Mich., zeroed in on a MIG-17 that was chasing a flight of F-105s, poured cannon fire at it until its right wing broke off and the pilot ejected. Lieut. Fred A. Wilson, of Mobile, Ala., overtook another MIG-17 so fast that he had no time to adjust his gun sights. "I was about to hit him, so I thought...