Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known, Dodson is the world's only photo-recon pilot to put an enemy truck out of action...
...MCALLISTER, 36, is an Air Force careerman who, in his eleven months in Viet Nam, has become a legend as "Mac the Fac" (for "forward air controller"), flying a toylike L19 spotter plane and seeking out Viet Cong troops and installations. McAllister used to be a hot jet fighter pilot, won a D.F.C. in Korea. Now he flies slower, but has more...
...stays alive because he is a superb pilot. Making his observation runs, he slides, fishtails, zooms and banks-anything to avoid enemy fire. "I usually fly looking back over my shoulder," he says. "That's because when I make a pass, the V.C. usually freeze, jump into holes or dive into water. By looking back I can see them popping up again." When he sees them, he summons fighter-bombers. As they approach, Mac guides them by radio: "I see six guys down there under those big trees to my left, wearing those crazy hats. I'll mark...
Grainger was a scholarly, quiet young man who had devoted his adult years to a search for some fulfilling engagement with life. He grew up in Meriden, Conn., joined the Army Air Forces after high school, later studied anthropology and sociology at Yale. He became a troop-ferrying pilot during the Korean War, then tried civilian life again. In 1958 he became a civilian historian for the Air Force, by 1964 had spent two years in South Viet Nam in that capacity...
...Treatment. A Texas-born Annapolis graduate (class of '28), Raborn started out in World War II as an aviator, later became executive officer of the flattop Hancock. When a kamikaze pilot plowed into the Hancock's flight deck off the coast of Japan in April 1945, Raborn got the deck patched up in four hours - in time to permit the carrier's planes to land safely from a mission. He won a Silver Star for his effort...