John G. Norris


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Starfighters on Formosa

Taipei, Formosa—One day last September during the heat of the Quemoy crisis, when the question of success of the Red blockade and possible American combat intervention bung in the balance, radar operators on both sides of the Formosa Strait blinked...

SAC’s Achilles Heel

Pinecastle AFB, Fla. Dawn is breaking as your B-47 leaves the runway. As the airplane levels off upstairs, you get out of your parachute harness, hook on an oxygen bottle, and crawl to the bombardier-navigator’s post in the nose. 1st...

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