Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hokkaido Island radioed a warning. "You are off course," chided the Japanese. "Turn south." But the message was lost amid crackling static, and Seaboard World Airlines Flight 25 3 A was already 80 nautical miles north of its course. Moments lat er, Pilot Joseph Tosolini was radioing that intercepting MIG fighters were forcing him to land on Iturup, one of the Soviet Kurile Islands. For Tosolini, 214 U.S. servicemen bound for Viet Nam aboard Flight 253A and the crew of 16, the interrupted maiden flight of the brand-new giant DC-8 jetliner turned into 55 hours of bone-wearying...
Bully Beef & Noodles. Tosolini's first inkling of trouble aloft was the sight of a MIG off his starboard wing. The Soviet pilot gestured to Tosolini to follow him. The DC-8 did, but when it veered off the new course for a few seconds, the MIG's guns belched a short burst. However, the shots were aimed away from the airliner. Nor did the Russians at Iturup seem unfriendly. When food aboard the airliner gave out, Soviet military rations of bread, cheese, butter, weak coffee, bully beef and noodles were provided, as well as cigarettes. During their second night...
Confined to their bases to mourn their fallen comrades, Egyptian army units, re-equipped with Soviet armor and vehicles, swore a solemn oath "by great Allah" to liberate Arab lands occupied by Israel. MIG 21s wheeled over Cairo in tight combat formation...
...fast Soviet engines that power the North Korean spy boats along the coast. Park is also pressing the U.S. to provide faster planes. Right now, his air force has 300 fighters, mostly F-86 Sabre jets, compared with North Korea's 450 fighters, most of which are MIG-15s and MIG-17s, with a sprinkling of MIG-21s. While South Korea awaits a promised squadron of Phantom F-4Cs, the U.S. has rushed 230 of its own fighter-bombers-mostly Phantoms and F106 Delta Darts-to five South Korean bases, expanded its air force personnel in South Korea from...
...Fears of MIG & Sam. Well aware of the Marines' dependence on air support, the North Vietnamese are doing everything they can to make the skies over Khe Sanh unsafe. So far, they have managed to destroy only one American C-130 transport and temporarily disable another, but they keep the airstrip under constant fire whenever a plane lands. They are also adding 37-mm. flak to the hundreds of machine guns that already ring the Marine base. U.S. flyers even fear that SAMS and MIGS may soon be used around Khe Sanh; in fact, B-52s are now escorted...