Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King, Keyes (9) 10. The Mission, Habe...
Anderson and his Albatross are part of the 650 men and 45 planes and helicopters of the Third Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Group. Their primary mission: retrieving U.S. airmen shot down over the North. Their motto...
...recovery mission is a formidable task force, often dedicated to finding and retrieving just one man. High overhead circles the "Crown," a C-130 command plane that coordinates the rescue. Then come four A-l fighters to bomb and strafe any North Vietnamese on the ground around the pilot. Two helicopters, either twin-jet HH-3 "Jolly Greens" or HH-43 "Pedros," move in for the pickup. Each chopper carries a crew of four: pilot, copilot, crew chief (who acts as hoist operator, gunner and mechanical expert), and a para-rescue man expert at parachuting, scuba diving, jungle survival...
...Russians were hardly in a mood to greet British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who flew into town at week's end. As was Mrs. Gandhi's, Wilson's mission was peace in Viet Nam; and for his own political reasons, he was desperately hoping for success. Doubtless, in the back of his mind was the need for a diversion from the economic trouble at home (see WORLD BUSINESS). For all his negotiating skill, Wilson could hardly have expected much as his Comet4 jet touched down in Moscow. The Kremlin had made it amply clear that...
...just as they did, in some miraculous fashion the temperature started going down again, and the battery once more accepted a charge. How long Surveyor would last and whether it would work again, no one could say. In any event, the little spaceship had long since accomplished its mission...