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...than double the budgets of the other Cup contenders, enabling him to test both the brand-new Freedom and Enterprise (built in 1976) before settling on his final hull. Racing the two against each other, he logged more than 1,200 practice hours and tried out more than 100 crewmen. He was especially meticulous about sails, trying every conceivable combination and even putting three sailmakers on his crew. "We're not a great deal faster than they are," Conner says. "But all the sailing and all the preparation we did beforehand just gave us a little...
...Domingo Cay. The two jets raked the lightly armed Flamingo with 23-mm cannons, then returned 45 minutes later and sank the vessel with two rocket salvos. As the Bahamian sailors bobbed helplessly in the water, the MiGs roared in low and strafed them. Four of the 19 Flamingo crewmen were missing...
...search for the missing Flamingo crewmen continued, the U.S. Coast Guard kept the Cuban border guard informed of U.S. participants, including Coast Guard Helicopter CG1438. The crew of 1438 was startled when two Cuban MiGs roared in on the helicopter and made three dangerously close passes. The first two came within 100 yds. of the U.S. craft. On the third pass a MiG zoomed a mere 50 ft. under the helicopter, which was only 300 ft. above the water. The MiG pilot then fired his afterburner, causing the chopper to shake and its crew to tremble. From Key West Naval...
...Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft. Nearby rested the scorched skeleton of a U.S. Navy RH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter. And in the wreckage were the burned bodies of eight American military air crewmen...
...After the Mayaguez, a small U.S. merchant ship headed for Thailand, was seized by a Cambodian gunboat, President Ford ordered a military rescue by 1,100 Marines. All 39 Mayaguez crewmen were freed, but at the cost of 41 U.S. servicemen killed and 50 wounded...