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Obsession with secrecy was equally futile. Commanders on the carrier Essex won permission to let their pilots overfly the beach only after the aircraft insignia were obliterated with gray paint. But only the U.S. Navy flew the A-4D jet fighter, whose distinctive silhouette was instantly recognizable. Similarly, a crew was sent over the side of the destroyer U.S.S. Eaton to paint out the ship's name. Yet the vessel's outline could be clearly identified as that of a U.S. warship; at binocular range, even the raised lettering could be read...
...Tuesday Commander Mike Griffin landed his 'Blue Blasters' A-4D jet on the flight deck and came up to the bridge to report to Captain Searcy. Griffin had just overflown the beach area and helplessly watched the Brigade being driven back to the sea. Searcy was shocked by the pilot's appearance. Griffin's face was blue. Tears were running down it without restraint. He was so angry and upset that it took a couple of minutes before he could utter a word. 'I hate to see a grown man cry, but I didn...
...children in a large house atop Mount Franklin overlooking El Paso. It is elegantly furnished with Persian rugs, brass candlesticks and French Provincial chairs. On New Year's Eve in 1971 Peggie Duggan received an unexpected visit from an Air Force major with a grim message: the F-4D jet fighter flown by her husband, Major William Young Duggan, 38, had been shot down that same day over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. It was his second combat tour in Viet Nam, his 454th combat mission-and in the 17 months since then nothing has been heard...
...limbo. In most states, according to the report, nearly un-monitored inspectors tend to be subject both to intimidation (one poultry inspector was pushed into a plucking machine) and to bribes (money, girls, or all the meat they can eat). As a result, the report charges, they routinely approve "4D" animals-dead, dying, diseased or disabled-for processing. In Massachusetts, a state-inspected processor was permitted to salvage cancerous tumors cut from sick cattle and sell them as "brains" or "sweetbreads" to Boston supermarkets. What makes such horror stories worth chronicling, the Raiders say, is the Agriculture Department...
...playing cards came out imprinted with conversion tables. To help matters considerably, an anonymous genius began spreading it around that if any sum expressed in shillings and old pennies were simply.,divided by two with the dividing stroke omitted, the result would be the new penny equivalent. Thus, 6/ 4d. became 32p. "I know it is not absolutely accurate," sighed a housewife, "but I feel I'm mastering the system at last...