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...treetop level on its way to a bombing mission in North Viet Nam's panhandle. Suddenly, something went wrong, and the U.S.'s most advanced warplane crashed somewhere in the dense jungle of Thailand or western Laos. It was the third F-111 crash since a squadron of six of the $6,000,000 swing-wings made their combat debut in Viet Nam less than a month...
...pressing the U.S. to provide faster planes. Right now, his air force has 300 fighters, mostly F-86 Sabre jets, compared with North Korea's 450 fighters, most of which are MIG-15s and MIG-17s, with a sprinkling of MIG-21s. While South Korea awaits a promised squadron of Phantom F-4Cs, the U.S. has rushed 230 of its own fighter-bombers-mostly Phantoms and F106 Delta Darts-to five South Korean bases, expanded its air force personnel in South Korea from 5,000 to 7,000 and established an advance base of the U.S. Fifth Air Force...
...soon will send at least one squadron of its latest operational fighter-bombers, F-4 Phantoms, to South Korea. Likely to follow are heavy tanks and naval combat craft. The armaments are part of a $100 million increase in the $170 million U.S. military aid program previously scheduled for South Korea this year...
...Korea's pugnacity. Speaking in Pyongyang, the capital, Soviet-trained Premier Kim II Sung warned that he was readying his military machine for a full-scale war that "may break out again at any moment." Reinforcing Kim's threat, the Soviet Union ordered a powerful 13-vessel squadron into the Sea of Japan as a counterforce to the strong U.S. task force there. While the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise moved from a point 45 miles off the North Korean coast to about 100 miles in a tension-easing gesture, two smaller U.S. flattops and supporting ships maintained their...
...York's Lieut. Peter Dodge, 27, veteran of 215 combat missions in Viet Nam and holder of a drawerful of medals, including the Distinguished Flying Cross, was released from the Navy four months ago. About to begin commercial-airline pilot training, he was ordered back to duty with Squadron VA831. "I'm not upset," said Dodge. "I'm very anxious to see justice done." Another who felt the same way was Marko Jukica, a naval gunner in the Austro-Hungarian fleet during World War I. On mobilization day, Jukica offered his services to the Navy, was politely...