Word: treetop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airplane (top speed to date: 4,159 m.p.h.) has given handsome, soft-spoken Bob White fewer problems than the P-51 he flew in World War II. Early in 1945, when only 20. White led a squadron of the Eighth Air Force's 355th Fighter Group in a treetop-level attack on a Luftwaffe airstrip. Suddenly, the Bavarian landscape came alive with orange and black antiaircraft fire. A shell ripped White's engine to bits, spewing globs of oil on the windscreen. Recalls White: "We were on the deck. When the flak caught me. I jettisoned the canopy...
...first time that the troops of the three South Vietnamese Ranger companies assigned to clear out the area had been flown into action. Moving at treetop level, choppers from the U.S. Army's 57th Helicopter Co., which since last December has flown some 45,000 troops on 6,300 sorties, ferried the Rangers and six U.S. observers to the strike zone. There was no cover but no enemy fire either as the Rangers jumped from the hovering helicopters into the knee-deep black mud of the paddy fields...