Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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U.S. pilots in Viet Nam-like the airmen in the three other wars Americans have fought this century-laugh off the dangers they face each day in enemy skies. Yet as Hanoi intensifies its flak and missile defenses, they realize all too well the likelihood of death or capture and...
"Unscheduled Swim." Rick Adams' attachment to freedom twice prompted him to risk his life rather than eject from mortally damaged aircraft over populated areas, where he would have had scant chance of rescue. His first escape came near Hanoi last October, when his F-8 Crusader was hit by...
The decision to bail out was finally made for him when an explosion ripped the plane apart and triggered the ejection mechanism. Adams floated safely down into the South China Sea with nothing worse than burned hands. Bellinger, riding shotgun overhead, drove off a nearby North Vietnamese fishing junk; minutes...
"See You in a Year." An "out-damn-standing pilot," in Bellinger's phrase, Adams was one of only six flyers chosen for the Oriskany's second tour in Vietnamese waters after its winter State side leave. On July 12, three days after the Oriskany reached its Yankee...
Adams is running as a "peace candidate" in the September primary. His opponents are former governor Endicott Peabody '42, who has the party endorsement, and Boston mayor John F. Collins.