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...Grady, 41, commander of the 29th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, arose at 2:30 a.m., by 3:30 was being briefed in the base operations building. The date was Oct. 29, 1962. O'Grady's mission: to lead a flight of RF-101 "Voodoo" supersonic jets on a low-level aerial reconnaissance flight over Cuba. His specific targets: an airfield and a missile site. Last week O'Grady, who was one of 25 Air Force, Navy and Marine reconnaissance pilots who received the Distinguished Flying Cross for their work, wrote the most detailed account...
Talk. On the diplomatic front, Adlai Stevenson urged Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant to impress upon the Russians the fact that the missiles must go. Making prompt action even more necessary was the fact that the Navy's twice-daily, low-level reconnaissance flights showed that the Russians were speeding up the erection of missile sites...
...going, he was assigned to an Arkansas National Guard squadron as an exchange pilot. His flying mates remember him as "a gung-ho, heads-up, by-the-book Annapolis man." but they forgave him because he was such a good pilot. He flew 90 missions, mostly ground strafing and low-level bombing. His missions got him credit for 1½ MIGs, a Distinguished Flying Cross and two Air Medals. He also buzzed a U.S. camp, blew down lines of tents and was hotly reprimanded...
...Low-Level Productivity. Bundesbank President Karl Blessing says West Germany is catching "the English disease," by which he means allowing wages to outrun productivity, thus pricing goods out of foreign competition. But the unpopular "wage pause" ordered by the Macmillan government a year ago has helped Britain to hold wage increases to 4.6% and to spur British exports to the Common Market countries, where wages are increasing much faster. Britain's increase in productivity, however, is a poor 2^%, and companies with excess capacity find little incentive to expand. Managers are also delaying decisions to spend until they learn...
Heroic Snafu. To smash Festung Ploesti, U.S. air planners came up with a novel plan : a daring low-level attack that completely violated the high-level strategic bombing canons of most top Air Forces brass. The planners reasoned that a rooftop raid would give the striking B-24 Liberators an element of surprise, limit the effectiveness of the Luftwaffe, and throw off the accuracy of flak gunners primed for high-level raiders. How they miscalculated is the core of Authors Dugan and Stewart's taut and gripping tale of a disastrous yet heroic snafu - pieced together from letters, diaries...