Word: saroya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Speak Saroya." Darting in minutes later with only a camera to shoot, Major Hallet P. Marston, 37, of Miami, hit flak so dense that it twice kicked his RF-101 photo-jet into a 90° bank. A veteran of 101 Korean reconnaissance missions and 78 photo flights over North Viet Nam, Marston reported that he had "never run into more intense, aimed fire. When I varied, the fire varied." Nor did the flak let up until the attackers ducked behind a mountain ridge on the way home-after running a 60-mile flak alley leading away from the capital...
...orders specified that if any plane got shot down outside a city, a jet protective patrol would be put overhead and a helicopter brought in to rescue them within the hour. If, however, a pilot crashed his aircraft in an urban area, he was told that he could "speak saroya," Air Force jargon for goodbye. Going in on the fourth wave over Hanoi, the pilot of the downed F-105 Thunderchief did in fact speak saroya: hit by crippling fire, he bailed out. Later, he was identified by Hanoi as Captain Murphy Neal Jones, 28, from Louisiana, and described...