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When the second plane put down at its next refueling stop in Halifax, N.S., its crew immediately wondered why the first had not yet arrived. So did U.S. Air Force radarmen, who had been monitoring the course of both flights. The answer, apparently, was that No. 09303 -one of 20 such operational planes in the Soviet fleet-had crashed into the North Atlantic off the southeastern tip of Greenland...
They are there as civilian pilots, air-traffic controllers, radarmen, advisers, engineers and cartographers. The U.S. officially admits to just 1,752 men in Laos, but there are probably a good many more...
...Maddox radarmen spotted what they reckoned to be five torpedo boats 36 miles to northeast. Task Group 72.1 began preparing for action...
Potted Chicken? As radarmen called fruitlessly for a course change, the big swept-wing Douglas jet crossed into Communist East Germany in the vicinity of the central Berlin air corridor. Moments later, two swift blips rose on the radar screens-Soviet MIGs in deadly pursuit. The slower-moving blip that marked the RB-66 leaped suddenly into wrenching, zigzag evasive maneuvers, four minutes later disappeared from the screen well within East German terri tory. On the ground, a German schoolboy watched the last moments of the fight: "The fighter closed on the bomber from behind and fired...
...helpless radarmen watched, the plane shot across the border. In less than five minutes, two other blips appeared beside the T-39. For the next eleven minutes, the radar showed the three planes moving eastward. Then, inexplicably, they veered west, and Captain Lorraine's training plane suddenly vanished. At the same time, residents in the East German village of Vogelsberg, 50 miles from the West German border, heard machine-gun and cannon fire overhead. Seconds later, they saw the U.S. jet, one wing shot away, cartwheel to earth...