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Word: ferrymen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average of three B-52s were shot down every two days. Vignettes of the flyers' fates materialized out of North Viet Nam too. One B-52 pilot was inflating his life raft twelve miles downstream from Hanoi in an attempt to escape, when he was surrounded by ferrymen. His last transmission on his survival radio: "Everything O.K. I am surrounded. I surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Nixon's Blitz Leads Back to the Table | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

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