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...three Phantoms were flying northwest, into the evening sun, escorting a slow, radar-laden RB-66 reconnaissance bomber close to the Red Chinese border. To Major Wilbur R. Dudley, 34, of Alamogordo, N. Mex., the first hint of trouble was the wink of cannon fire beneath his Phantom fighter. It came from four "silver, swept-wing and well-kept aircraft"-Communist MIG-17s, presumably Chinese. "I broke to the right," recalled Dudley after last week's action, "and pickled [dropped] my fuel tanks, and then I came up on this MIG just as it was making a firing pass...
Socorro, N. Mex...
Roswell, N. Mex...
Born in Laredo, Mann spoke border Spanish-"Tex-Mex"-almost as soon as he spoke English and acquired a lifelong fondness for the neighboring Mexicans and the Latin temperament. All but two years of his State Department service were spent in Latin America or on Latin American affairs. He was ambassador to Mexico when Lyndon Johnson succeeded to the presidency, soon became Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs and the Administration's "one voice on all matters affecting this hemisphere." Last year he was promoted to Under Secretary and the Department's No. 3 man, after Dean Rusk...
...chance came two days later when an Air Force Phantom commanded by Major Paul Gilmore, 33, of Alamogordo, N. Mex., spotted two jets diving in on him. Both were Fishbeds. Gilmore went into a tight diving turn of his own, whipped up behind one of the MIGs, fired off two Sidewinders...