Word: 17s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own, Nationalist pilots flying U.S.-built F-86 Sabre jets put on a superb show against the Communists' faster, Russian-built MIG-17s last week...
TAIPEI--A sudden attack by four Communist MIG 17s on Chinese Nationalist supply planes off Quemoy heightened the danger today of the offshore island war entering a new and more deadly phase...
...August, were accompanied by their defense ministers-a fact that led to a rush of speculation. Gist of the rumors: Communist China was again preparing to attack Formosa or the Nationalist-held offshore island chains of Quemoy and Matsu. Later events gave some substance to the speculation: Communist MIG-17s and Nationalist F-86s and F-845 began tangling more often above Formosa Strait; Communist gunners began to pound the islands, last week put down thousands of shells in two hours of the heaviest bombardment that Quemoy has ever taken...
...around the cape on Friday morning, schoolchildren, housewives, servicemen, office workers poured out into streets, yards, roadsides and public beaches not three miles from the launch pad. The red ball signifying test imminent was hoisted. The crash boats plowed out. The observation planes, two old World War II B-17s and a new Cessna, circled above, gaining altitude. At 10:42 the gantry was rolled away from the rocket; at 11:32 it was moved back again, then finally away; at 11:44 the last "umbilical" cable connecting the rocket to the disconnect pole was slipped free. Seconds later...
...Force Captain George H. French of Mount Vernon, N.Y. had two consuming passions-flying and gambling. As a bombardier-navigator, French was skillful and courageous: during World War II, slim, alert Airman French flew 35 missions in B-17s, in Korea he logged five more missions in B-29s. But as a gambler, French was inept and intemperate. Since his assignment in June 1956 to a B-36 crew at the Strategic Air Command's Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico, George French, grown fat and dissipated, had piled up almost $10,000 in losses, gone in debt to banks...