Word: combating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olds, commander of the Thailand-based 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, was credited with his fourth MIG kill of the Viet Nam war. That brought to 28½ the total of enemy aircraft - Hitler's and Ho's-that he has destroyed in 24 years of aerial combat. One more MIG and Olds will become the first American ace of the Viet...
...this year led the first fighter sweep of the war, suckering seven MIGs to their fate (TIME, Jan. 13). Flying a 1,450-m.p.h. F-4C Phantom fighter nicknamed Scat, he dropped one supersonic MIG-21 himself in that sortie, added another on May 4 while flying MIGCAP (for "combat air patrol") in a raid on the Hanoi transformer installation. A weekend ago, he and his "gibs" (guy-in-the-back-seat, or copilot) spotted 15 slower but more maneuverable MIG-17s coming up fast during a fighter-bomber raid 40 miles northeast of the Communist capital. The ensuing scramble...
R.A.F. Handlebars. A cautious, conservative hunter when he is in the air, Olds leads a three-squadron Phantom wing whose 60 planes have knocked out 22 of the 72 MIGs downed over North Viet Nam to date (v. 20 U.S. fighters lost in aerial combat). Tall and taut at 6 ft. 2 in. and 195 lbs., Olds weighs 10 lbs. less than he did as an All-America tackle on West Point's 1943 football team, has recently sprouted a chestnut R.A.F.-style handlebar mustache that horrified his wife, former Movie Actress Ella Raines, when she visited her husband...
Cold, wet feet have long rendered soldiers hors de combat as surely as enemy bullets. The rain-soaked coastal lowlands of Viet Nam and the paddy-fields of the Mekong Delta have presented U.S. troops with a less-understood disorder: warm-water-immersion foot...
...back up troops already massed along the Israeli border, mobilized its untrained "People's Army" to back up the tanks and ordered students to form 150-man "battalions" to back up the army. The armed forces of Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and tiny Kuwait were placed on combat alert. Egypt called up its 100,000-man reserves, drafted half a million students into a civil defense corps and warned all doctors, hospitals and pharmacies to be ready for emergency duties. Israeli cities were strangely empty, just as they had been on the eve of the Suez campaign: most able...