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...attacking Communist aircraft. RF-101 photo-reconnaissance planes dive into the smoke to film the raid's damage for analysis back home, using strobelike parachute flares at night. Backing the raids also are the planes and helicopters of the Air Rescue Service, ready to pluck a downed airman out of the enemy heartland...
...Airman First Class Marvin L. Jones, 21, stationed at the Ramstein, U.S.A.F. base in West Germany, likes to think of himself as having a wild-blue-yonder sense of humor. When his girl back home in Colorado wrote she wasn't going to visit him this summer, he wrote and told her he was so desolate that he was going to defect. The next letter she would get would be from the Kremlin, he added with gleeful literary pique...
...Jones took off on a 23-day sightseeing tour that included Moscow. When he hit the Big Onion, naturally, the airman dashed off another note, saying, "Here I am, and I'm thinking of joining the Workers' Party," sealed it and stuck it in a mailbox. His chuckles lasted all the way to the Rumanian border, where Soviet border guards, muttering about "passport irregularities," whisked him off his tour bus and back to Kiev. There he was slapped into a guarded hotel room and visited by three suave but hopeful Soviet agents, who, it seemed, read other people...
...radio transmitter was recently used in the rescue of a U.S. airman downed in the jungles of North Viet Nam. The transmitter emits a sirenlike radio beacon on preset frequencies, enabling rescuers to home in on survivors...
Correspondent Wilde sat down with veteran Jet Pilot Risner between bombing missions of the F-105 squadron he commands, and for hours they talked about the airman's role in the war. In the three days following the interview, Risner led three bombing and strafing missions over North Viet Nam, one of which was rated as perhaps the most successful air strike of the war. To get the rest of the story, the three reporters sought out other warriors in key positions, working much of the time under combat conditions...