Word: vogelsberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into Communist territory, innocently or not, the Russians do not hesitate to shoot. Since 1950, 108 U.S. airmen have died or disappeared within Communist airspace, the last three only seven weeks ago when an unarmed-and demonstrably innocent-T-39 jet trainer was blasted from the leaden skies over Vogelsberg (TIME...
...than five minutes, two other blips appeared beside the T-39. For the next eleven minutes, the radar showed the three planes moving eastward. Then, inexplicably, they veered west, and Captain Lorraine's training plane suddenly vanished. At the same time, residents in the East German village of Vogelsberg, 50 miles from the West German border, heard machine-gun and cannon fire overhead. Seconds later, they saw the U.S. jet, one wing shot away, cartwheel to earth...
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