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...Major James Kasler-one of the legendary figures of the Viet Nam War-just after his 72nd mission. The story that went to press that week dubbed Kasler a "one-man Air Force" and perhaps the "hottest" pilot in Southeast Asia. Five days later, Kasler buckled into the cockpit of his F-105 Thunderchief for his 73rd-and last-mission. His plane was hit by ground fire, and he was forced to eject. He was held prisoner until a month ago. Last week Neff again interviewed Kasler, now a full colonel, at his home in Indianapolis, and filed this account...
...point of fact, most of America's last combat flyers seemed plenty glad that U.S. involvement was over. "I don't think any of us enjoyed killing," said Captain Bill Peters, 28, as he climbed down from his cockpit. "The high point of my time in Viet Nam will be going home." Added Lieut. David Mowrey, 26: "My personal feelings are mixed on whether it was a success, whether it was worth it. But it's been a hell of an education." Lieut. Mowrey is a George Washington University graduate who has hopes of going into government...
Late last week TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron flew over the island and described this scene: "At a distance of 50 miles, the inky horizon shimmered with an eerie red glow. At a distance of five miles, fly ash and stones peppered the plane's cockpit, making the sort of sound one hears when driving through a swarm of locusts. As we came still closer, fountains of flaming rock hurled up past us in the night, reaching heights twice that of the Empire State Building. The night turned from black to red, and the air smelled like sulfuric fumes from...
...hijacker boarded the Los Angeles-to-New York airliner with an automatic pistol concealed inside a fake plaster arm cast. Once he had seized control in the cockpit, he started making a wild series of demands over the radiotelephone. He wanted to talk to President Nixon; he wanted the release of Angela Davis; he wanted a ransom payment of exactly $306,800. Eight hours after the hijacker struck, two FBI agents disguised as crew members boarded the plane at John F. Kennedy Airport, shot the hijacker in the hand and captured...
...high, then struck seven houses and crashed a mile and a half short of Midway. Miraculously, the plane apparently killed only two of the residents, and missed a grammar school by one block. But 43 of the 61 people aboard the plane died, including all three members of the cockpit crew. It was the worst domestic airline crash in 1972. Among the victims were Congressman George Washington Collins, 47, a black who won a November victory in Chicago's racially mixed Seventh District, and Michele Clark, 29, a Washington-based CBS newscaster...