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...outdone himself. He had not only strung an electric sign "Welcome General Douglas MacArthur" across the facade of the Shamrock, but had provided artillerymen who fired a 17-gun salute when the general got to the hotel. A $250-a-day suite-provided with two butlers in red tail coats and green pants-was ready for the distinguished visitor...
Mach One. "You pick out someone to fight and you try to get on his tail. Everyone's flying all around you and you're a bit afraid of a collision. You're only human and you're worried. Yet the speed is so great that you'd have a hard time trying to ram someone if you wanted...
...feel pretty good when you're on someone's tail and shooting at him. You don't know there are other planes in the sky. The speeds are terrific-we actually dogfight at Mach 1.0, the speed of sound. The controls are hard to move and you have to use both hands on them...
...Someone tells you there's a MIG on your tail. Then you don't feel so good. You want to get out of this mess and go home. You know he isn't a good shot, but he's pointing a couple of guns at you. This is the worst feeling...
...Then we got hit in the tail. We lost cabin pressure. Instruments started reading zero. All the time, this battle was going south. I think the MIGs finally broke off the attack at Pyongyang...