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...drawn up, with an emphasis, as Groves later wrote, on "places the bombing of which would most adversely affect the will of the Japanese people to continue the war." A special Air Force unit--the 509th Composite Group--had been formed in September 1944, under the command of Lieut. Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, regarded by many to be the service's best bomber pilot. Tibbets' group would be responsible for dropping the then untested atomic devices, although few of its 225 officers and 1,542 enlisted men were told the exact nature of their assignment...
...area. They worked then, and still do today. In 1944 it took 13 days to extract three of us from among my crew, but then we had no radios or helicopters. O'Grady survived in a very hostile area, and fully deserves the accolades given him. Harry D. Whye, Colonel, U.S.A.F. (ret.) Bellevue, Nebraska...
...last week's whimpering climax. Shortly after the shoot-down, the Air Force granted immunity to Captain Eric Wickson, the F-15 pilot believed by many in the Pentagon to be most responsible for the catastrophe. The Air Force used his testimony against the other F-15 pilot, Lieut. Colonel Randy May. While May was senior in rank, Wickson was the so-called flight lead the day of the shoot-down, making Wickson largely responsible for what occurred. In part because of that prosecutorial decision, 26 charges of negligent homicide against May were dropped. Furthermore, the top officer responsible...
...chronically unable to observe rank. The culmination of this attitude, recalls another staff member, occurred "one day, when he came in and he had these general's stars on. He had promoted himself to general. All the other cadets were going crazy. You had to work real hard, and colonel is the highest rank you could make. It was like-golly. He was one of those you looked at and you said, 'Man, where is he coming from...
...perhaps the Bosnian game is deception rather than surprise. Most of the military experts watching last week's offensive take shape confessed that they were confused. One of them, Canadian Lieut. Colonel Daniel Redburn, had a particularly close vantage point. He was bottled up with his detachment of peacekeepers at a U.N. base in Visoko that had been blockaded and mined by Bosnian-government troops. He could see smoke and explosions rising from a battle a couple of miles away but could only guess at their significance. "Is that a bluff?" he asked. "Do they want to get to Sarajevo...