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...Marines are not just holding the pilot responsible for the Prowler air crash that killed 20 people at an Italian ski resort, they?re considering charges against all four crew members. ?There?s only one set of flight controls on that aircraft,? says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. ?Pointing the finger at all four men suggests there may have been a pact among them to engage in some sort of horseplay. The Marines were not impressed that all four crewmen initially refused to testify, allowing them to collude and present a common account...
...morning, the Chaplain of a battleship in Pearl Harbor was busy on the afterdeck with a couple of assistants, running up the bunting in preparation for divine service. Their polite murmurs were suddenly interrupted by the roar of the Jap. The Chaplain dropped his bunting, ran to an anti-aircraft gun and began preaching lead to the Japanese. A few minutes later he was heard to intone: "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition; I just got one of the sons of bitches...
...lines of blue lights etched the outlines of the remote landing strip. Suddenly flames illuminated the night sky, then gradually flickered out. On the powdery sands of Dasht-e-Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft. Nearby rested the scorched skeleton of a U.S. Navy RH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter. And in the wreckage were the burned bodies of eight American military air crewmen...
...SIDEWINDER During the war and the cease-fire, U.S. jets using these supersonic heat-seeking, air-to-air missiles dispatched eight Iraqi aircraft. About 35 Sidewinders were fired Cost: $84,000 each...
...SPARROW About 50 cost-effective Sparrows were used to take out 23 enemy aircraft Cost: $125,000 each...