Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National A.A.U. Men's Outdoor Swimming and Diving championships at Lincoln, Neb., plus a repeat of the whiz-bang U.S. Air Force Fighter Interceptor Rocketry Meet at Tyndall Air Force Base...
...Harold Stassen's letter [Aug. 5] proposing a "Fourth Alternative" in Viet Nam is based on two inaccurate observations. He asserts that "historically, the North, known as Tongking, and the South, known as Annam, were separate," and that "the North and South each have a viable economic base...
...Tanker Base. Part of a $75 million, U.S.-financed project near the Thai port of Sattahip, the new airfield features an 11,500-ft. runway, the longest and strongest in Southeast Asia. The facility will be home base for 30 giant KC-135 tankers. These circle in the vicinity of North Viet Nam to refuel the U.S. Air Force jets that fly more than 60% of all American raids over the North and Laos from four other Thai bases. Also to be stationed at U-Tapao are a troop carrier wing and an air transport unit, for funneling American...
Leading his flight of four F-105s on a mission 55 miles northwest of Hanoi one afternoon, the 40-year-old Kasler had completed his primary assignment of bombing a cluster of warehouses, and could have returned to his base in Thailand. As usual, however, his flight began prowling the countryside for "targets of opportunity." Spotting several trucks, the jets hit them and were looking for more when ground fire caught Kasler's wingman, and he ejected. Kasler circled the area to protect him until rescue helicopters could get in. When Kasler's fuel gauge hit "bingo" (minimum...
Death Confirmed. Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, 54, third son of the 13th Duke of Hamilton, a World War II R.A.F. group captain credited with discovering the German V-2 base at Peenemünde who later moved to the U.S. to run an aircraft supply business, then disappeared in Africa in July 1964, while delivering a twin-engined Beechcraft to the Congo; when a native came across the wreckage 9,000 ft. up Cameroon Mountain, just south of Nigeria, and the British Foreign Office reported identifying the body...