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...Macchi MC-202. So is the old workhorse of World War II-and beyond-the DC-3. Said one former combat pilot, standing before a full-scale diorama of aerial combat with a B-17 under attack: "It's so real that you want to duck the chin gunner. Wait'll the kids see this." Another veteran who flew over Europe said wistfully as he viewed the empty aircraft: "I see faces. The faces of those who didn't come back." There is still more. A rather unnerving audio-visual display of how modern air traffic controllers...
...imagine they have their own good reasons, but I feel betrayed by the South Vietnamese government," said Staff Sergeant Vale D. Short, 25, who is stationed at Fort Jackson, S.C. Short was a crew chief and a gunner on an assault helicopter flying out of Pleiku. "I wish we could go back over and do it right this time. I don't mean under the old rules, but in a real...
...panic, amnesia and other classic reactions of "battle shock." Some of the effects were new to Israelis. The need to abandon wounded comrades on the field during the heavy and continuous fighting, a denial of the Israeli army's code of behavior, was shattering. One Israeli machine gunner shot down so many Arabs that he fled in panic, obsessed by the idea of a pile of corpses blotting out the sun. Another soldier, unhurt when his halftrack was blown up, broke down because the machine had been his home and sole reference point in five days of fighting...
...tails, planned to forsake the usual armada of limousines and motorcycles and arrive at the palace on foot. There he would review not the silver-helmeted Garde Républicaine but a unit of the First Army's Second Dragoon Regiment, in which he served as a tank gunner during World War II. When he later makes the ceremonial visit to the tomb of the unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe, the new President will walk up the Champs-Elysées instead of being driven there by limousine...
...south. Finally, we were dropped off in a forward command post, where I was given a lift in the APC of a colorful brigadier general. Let's call him "Tallo" (it is a violation of Israeli censorship to publish the names of brigade commanders). Moshe, the APC machine gunner, had cautioned me to sleep near the vehicle because shelling was frequent. Incoming artillery soon proved his point. "Why are you risking your life out here?" he asked incredulously as we huddled inside...