Word: tanker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fisherman who plucked three U.S. airmen from the water off Spain's south coast last Jan. 17 remembered seeing "another parachute with half a man" fall into the sea after a nuclearladen B-52 had collided with a jet tanker. The "half a man" was a 20-megaton H-bomb, and luckily the skipper of one fishing sloop was sure he knew the exact spot where the bomb fell-five miles off the coast near Palomares. Other sea going Spanish witnesses were equally sure the site was elsewhere, but the U.S. Navy routinely put down a marker buoy just...
...Biddle Duke, 50, diplomatically endorsed the Spanish swimming. "Exhilarating! Sensational! Magnificent! Superb!" raved Duke. Well now, it couldn't have been all that good, but it did help put the idea across that the U.S. H-bomb lost when an Air Force B-52 collided with its refueling tanker had not contaminated the sea. Why, while the ambassador splashed around with two of his children and some chilled conscripts from the embassy staff, local Andalusians even strung out a banner: WE HAVE CONFIDENCE...
...disarray of his black adversaries must have delighted Ian Smith. Each day he had more reasons for joy: heavily laden tanker trucks have been roaring north along the highway from South Africa, bringing in some 40,000 gallons of gasoline daily, nearly one-third of Rhodesia's rationed needs. The petroleum is being sold to Rhodesia by independent South African oil companies, which have been emboldened by Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's decision not to abide by Britain's oil embargo. The trucks were seized by Smith from British Petroleum and Shell subsidiaries in Rhodesia, repainted grey...
...nuke was one of four that fell over southern Spain Jan. 17, when a U.S. Air Force B-52 collided with a refueling tanker. The first three bombs -and four crew members-were quickly recovered. The fourth bomb was still missing. Though the bombs were unarmed and protected by radiation-proof shields, the U.S. was understandably anxious to get them all back. To that end, seven hundred U.S. airmen, soldiers, civilian technicians and Spanish troops were scouring a ten-sq.-mi. coastal area near Palomares, and 16 ships-including three deep-sea subs-were combing the ocean floor. All they...
Object of an extensive search was one of four hydrogen bombs-each, if detonated, capable of wiping out a city-that fell from a U.S. Air Force B-52 when it collided with a refueling tanker over Spain's coast on Jan. 17. Three of the bombs landed on Spanish soil and were readily recovered. The fourth fell into the sea just short of Almeria. Fishermen quickly rescued the bomber's four survivors but not the bomb. Some 2,000 American servicemen from Spanish bases undertook the search. To be sure, none of the deadly, multimegaton nuclear-bomb...