Word: gunship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against Iraq (see following story) have made the security-conscious Saudis extremely nervous. By invading Iraq's Fao Peninsula last February, the Iranians established a menacing threat to Saudi Arabia and its equally vulnerable gulf neighbors. The danger was underscored last week when an Iranian helicopter gunship fired a missile into a Saudi oil tanker in gulf waters, leaving four crewmen missing and seven wounded...
...largest in the region, has been trained by some 3,500 Cuban advisers. East Germans and Cubans are at every level of the Sandinistas' internal-security apparatus. The Soviets have funneled an estimated $500 million in weapons to Nicaragua, including as many as twelve Mi-24 gunship helicopters...
More than a decade after U.S. military forces quit Viet Nam, a team of American recovery specialists was permitted to enter Laos for a two-week examination of the crash site of an AC-130 Spectre gunship. The area was being scoured for the remains of 13 U.S. crewmen still listed as missing in action. The joint mission, which included Laotian soldiers and government officials as well as U.S. specialists, worked at its task in a dense patch of jungle 25 miles northeast of the city of Pakse. The search is a continuation of the U.S. Government's long-term...
...slants through tall trees and casts long shadows across the tufted stalks of elephant grass as we arrive at the crash site in the late afternoon. Suddenly, the dense undergrowth gives way to an unnatural clearing of dirty gray sand littered with the half-recognizable detritus of the shattered gunship: broken wheel struts, a bent propeller blade, rusted armor plating, scraps of the fuselage. Resembling patches of smudged snow, remnants of the plane's once white fiber-glass insulating material are scattered everywhere. Earlier, crews of olive-clad Laotian soldiers and Americans in T shirts and grimy Levi...
...Spectre gunship was in night combat over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in December 1972, when ground fire punctured its fuel line. The plane was limping back to base in Thailand when it exploded and plunged into the jungle about 25 miles northeast of Pakse, Laos. Two crewmen parachuted to safety, and a rescue helicopter recovered the partial remains of a third airman. That left 13 Americans on the plane presumed dead but designated as missing in action, a classification that encompasses 2,483 other Americans unaccounted for in Southeast Asia...