Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Before I had read your story, I thought that the bomber pilot in Dr. Strangelove was an exaggerated characterization. Thank you for pushing the ejection button on my fool's paradise...
...received an honorary doctorate in Indonesia, the army uniform he wore back in 1954 as a leader of Cambodian insurgents, and a certificate issued by French colonial authorities stating that Snookie indeed graduated from grade school. Also on hand: the revolver, holster and flight suit of an American pilot shot down over Cambodia last October...
Throw a nickel on the grass, Save a fighter pilot's asterisk...
Short (5 ft. 7 in.) and powerfully built, with a bowlegged, gangling walk, the blue-eyed, crew-cut McAllister looked like the all-American Butch -and had an all-American record. A careerman like most of his U.S. comrades in Viet Nam, he had been a hot jet pilot in Korea, had flown more than 100 missions and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. But his assignment in Viet Nam to the low-level chore of winkling out Viet Cong did not dim his enthusiasm. On the contrary, Mac made himself the most celebrated "Fac" in South Viet...
...words of one of his colleagues-marked enemy positions with smoke bombs, called in hot fighter-bombers, and then got the hell out of the way. The whole business scared him almost stiff. Said he: "Whenever that ground stuff came up at me, I was the most disjointed pilot in the world, trying to get away." But he went in lower, more often, and took more hits than any other U.S. pilot so far in the Viet...