Word: rb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wounded and 21 captured. Also found sprawled dead within the post: 16 women and children. The government chased the attackers in an operation involving 3,000 men, but the guerrillas vanished. Five more Americans apparently lost their lives -a sergeant shot in an ambush and four airmen aboard an RB-26 that crashed into the Mekong River...
...Force lost 15 men during the alert: four in the crash of an RB-47 reconnaissance plane at Florida...
MacDill Air Force Base; four in an RB-47 crash at Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda; six in the crack-up of a C-135 transport at Guantanamo, and U-2 Pilot Major Rudolf Anderson, who was shot down by antiaircraft fire while on a photo-reconnaissance flight-one of more than 2,000 sorties over Cuba...
...Throughout that week. U.S. planes kept Cuba under their photographic magnifying glass. Air Force RB-475 and U25 prowled high over the island. Navy jets swooped low along the coastlines...
...weeks it seemed as if he might get it, especially after the Soviet Union released two imprisoned U.S. RB-47 flyers. But the Kremlin soon set about a round of troublemaking that challenged the U.S. from Laos to Berlin. Tension reached its peak with the erection of the Berlin wall and the Soviet Union's resumption of nuclear testing on a monster scale. It looked as if President Kennedy's flinty remark to a flinty Khrushchev at Vienna-"It's going to be a cold winter"-would prove all too true. But last week, after long months...