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by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel


  717th Bomb Squadron, 62

  718th Bomb Squadron, 62

  4083rd Strategic Wing, 221

  6167th Air Base Group, 126

  U.S. Navy/Marine Corps

  1st Marine Division, 89

  9th Marine Expeditionary Force, 260

  X Corps, 91–92

  Foreign

  II Corps, R.O.C., 91

  6th Division, R.O.C., 91

  33rd Peoples Army Regiment, NVA, 260

  66th Peoples Army Regiment, NVA, 260

  320th Peoples Army Regiment, NVA, 260

  Miller, Edward, 178

  Mixson, Marion, 175–89, 194–95, 239, 342

  Momyer, William, 93, 260

  Mukden, 163, 191

  Myers, Howard, 12–20, 154, 158, 160–65, 184–87, 191, 232, 342

  National Security Council, 9, 88

  NATO, 9, 10, 146

  Nelson, George, 19

  Newman, Herbert, 178

  Ngo Dinh Diem, 259

  Nixon, Richard, 263

  Novaya Zemla, 221

  Olmstead, Bruce, 228

  Operations

  Chrome Dome, 306

  Ivy, 29

  Line Backer I&II, 263

  Plain Fare, 9

  Rolling Thunder, 260–61, 264

  Steel Tiger, 340

  Vittles, 9, 14

  PACAF, 287

  Palm, Willard, 228

  Partridge, Earl, 128

  Pellerin, Joseph, 63

  phase-V capsule, 232

  phases, wind, 217–18, 223

  Phillips, Charles, 218, 220–28

  Phillips, Dean, 229

  Piccione, Gino, 178

  pilot proficiency, 296–97

  Pitmann, Peter, 310

  Posa, Eugene, 229

  POW, 110–14, 122, 182, 294–95, 309

  Powers, Francis, 161, 235

  Preston, Joseph, 202–03

  Project Homerun, 219–20

  Purple Heart corner, 130

  Raven, 217, 225, 233–34, 236–39, 242–44, 246, 249, 251

  RBS site, 199, 308

  Rich, Ben, 145

  Richthofen, Manfred, 40

  Rider, Fred, 323–40, 342

  Ridgway, Matthew, 87, 92

  Ritchie, Steve, 263

  Robertson, Brian, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9

  Rogers, Robert, 236–54

  Ron Ferry, 276, 330–31

  Royall, Kenneth, 4, 9

  Rust, Howard, 239, 248–50, 252

  Ryan, John, 143

  Sakhalin Island, 163, 170–71, 192, 239

  Samuel, Wolfgang, 234, 254

  Sanders, Rex, 183, 187

  Schamber, Robert, 192

  Schreffler, Charles, 96–103

  Schulz, Richard, 69–70, 87, 114–18

  Scott, Robert, 320

  searchlights, 121, 142, 163, 170

  Sebille, Louis, 101

  silverplate, 71

  Six-Power Conference, 5

  Smith, Joseph, 15, 36

  Sokolovsky, Vassily, 4, 5, 20

  Spaatz, Carl, 69

  Stalin, Joseph, 3, 4, 56, 146

  standboard, 303

  Stein, Joseph, 116

  Stone, Ellery, 181

  strategic reconnaissance

  losses, 150–51, 158, 171

  overflights, 148–49, 160–65, 169–70, 183–95, 199–214, 219

  stress, and combat flying, 19, 25, 39–41, 43, 48, 50–52, 61–64, 124, 134–36, 155–58, 172–73, 208–09, 218, 243–44, 272–73, 294–95, 297–98, 311–12, 316–17

  Studak, Joseph, 70–71

  Summers, Harry, 94

  Sweet, Leonard, 21–26, 38–39

  Symington, Stuart, 69

  Task Force Smith, 89

  Taylor, David, 29, 126–43, 342

  Thud Ridge, 288, 294

  Thule air base, 149, 216–25, 228

  Tonkin, Gulf of, 234, 253, 259, 285, 319

  Truman, Harry, 1, 2, 4, 6–9, 88–91, 182

  Tsingtao, 164

  Tunner, William, 15, 16, 36, 52

  Turner, Roscoe, 166

  Twining, Nathan, 168

  USAFE, 2, 15, 38

  Vandenberg, Hoyt, 69

  Vaughn, Chester, 53–55

  Velasco, Nestor, 63

  Vietnam, aircraft losses, 294, 309, 315

  Vladivostok, 163–64, 191, 239–40

  Volgograd, 188

  Waite, Reginald, 7

  Walker, Walton, 89, 91–92

  Weather Station Nord, 223–28

  Whitney, Cornelius, 9

  Wiggins, Larry, 281–85

  Wilson, Henry, 178

  Winters, Robert, 236–54

  Wonsan, 100, 121, 164, 240–41, 247

  Wright, J. R., 62, 65, 66

  Yalu River, 111, 119, 121, 124, 153, 161–62, 164, 191

  Yeager, Charles, 155

  ZSU, 335

 

 

 


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