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...bombs had been attached in clusters to her long, swept-back wings (total span: 185 ft.). At 10:30 p.m., as low-hanging clouds raced past a sickle moon, a beat-up bus unloaded 6623's six-man crew for the night. The aircraft commander, Captain Ed Petersen, a 27-year-old graduate of the Air Force Academy, walked around the big plane, flashlight in hand, with the sergeant who was in charge of the ground crew. Petersen spotted a suspicious puddle of liquid beneath the plane. "I drank it. It's water," reported the crew chief...
Reassured, Petersen climbed the narrow steps up to the flight deck, where his copilot, First Lieut. Joseph Czarkovski, had already started the preflight checkout of the plane's complex systems. Unlike air crews in World War 11 or Korea, who got to know all the foibles of their particular aircraft, Petersen and his men are not assigned to one plane. It was their first flight in 6623, and they might never fly her again. The crew had been together only since mid-January, and Petersen was substituted at the last moment for the regular aircraft commander, who had developed...
Precisely on schedule at 11:23, Petersen started the B-52's eight engines, and 6623 taxied to her place as the third plane in a three-bomber flight. It took 45 agonizingly long seconds to lift her 500,000 Ibs. into the air. "I'm scared every time we get one of these machines off the ground," said Czarkovski, with cheerful candor. The three B-52Ds climbed slowly to approximately 30,000 feet and set a course for North Viet Nam, 2,600 miles west. They flew strung out in a loose formation about two miles apart...
...employing a number of top-secret jamming devices to conceal 6623 within its own protective bubble of electronic countermeasures. As the B-52 came within range of surface-to-air missiles, Underwood employed other devices that blocked the missile radar from locking on to the big plane. Meanwhile Captain Petersen started to put the plane through turns to make 6623 a more elusive target...
...ahead. Will Wilson, a former Assistant Attorney General in charge of the criminal division, was to write a formal letter instructing investigators to get a court order for the proposed eavesdrop. But many of Wilson's letters were actually signed by two of his aides, Henry Petersen and Harold Shapiro. Both Mitchell and Wilson permitted aides to sign for them, despite the legal requirement that Mitchell or a designated assistant personally review each bugging application. The practice went on until James Hogan, a defense lawyer in the Miami case, noticed the irregularity. Said Hogan: "When I examined the various...