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...year Air Force veteran and an eight-MIG jet ace in Korea, Lieut.Colonel James Robinson Risner, 40, was the archetype of the professional who until recently has borne the brunt of the U.S. military effort in Viet...
...that the pause might be an Administration ploy to give Hanoi a breathing spell that could lead to negotiations. Maybe. But bombings of Viet Cong encampments in the South continued. Indeed, there may have been a good deal of truth in the assessment of Air Force Lieut. Colonel Robinson Risner, veteran pilot in South Viet Nam who was in Washington to get a medal (see PEOPLE). When a reporter asked Risner if U.S. flyers were simply running out of bridges to hit in North Viet Nam. Risner said tersely...
...face of heavy ground fire, Lieut. Colonel James Robinson Risner, 40 (TIME cover, April 23), led his Fighting Cock squadron and 90 other jets into North Viet Nam early last month, and hammered at the critical rail and highway bridge near Thanhhoa until finally it was destroyed. His F-105 was heavily damaged by antiaircraft fire, but he refused to be diverted from his mission. For such "extraordinary heroism," Air Force Chief of Staff General J. P. McConnell last week brought Robbie Risner back from Viet Nam, awarded him the Air Force Cross, second in rank only to the nation...
...that statement, Ayres certainly spoke for the vast majority of American fighting men in Viet Nam - for Risner and Rogers, for Skunk Hunter Hunt and for Mac the Fac, for Niedringhaus and Necaise, for Dodson and Bradley and McNeil...
That is about all Risner and his fellow fighting men could or would...