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Correspondent Wilde sat down with veteran Jet Pilot Risner between bombing missions of the F-105 squadron he commands, and for hours they talked about the airman's role in the war. In the three days following the interview, Risner led three bombing and strafing missions over North Viet Nam, one of which was rated as perhaps the most successful air strike of the war. To get the rest of the story, the three reporters sought out other warriors in key positions, working much of the time under combat conditions...
...Communists to send troops and supplies into South Viet Nam. With fuel and ordnance still to spare, the Thunderchiefs swung back north, destroyed a key railroad bridge in North Viet Nam. Only then did the pilots of the U.S. Air Force's 67th ("Fighting Cock") Tactical Fighter Squadron follow their leader, Lieut. Colonel James Robinson Risner, back to their base at Danang...
Perfecting His Skills. In most previous U.S. wars, Thunderchief Squadron Leader "Robbie" Risner would have been an exception, not a rule. The commander of the Fighting Cocks is no spring chicken. At 40, he still bears scars from his teen-age days as a rodeo rider in Oklahoma, where he grew up. He has been flying combat aircraft for 22 years. He was a Korean War ace-with eight MIGs to his credit. His left eye is permanently bloodshot as a result of zooming so close to a MIG kill in Korea that the ejecting Communist pilot struck Risner...
CAPTAIN RICHARD C. LEE, 35, a stocky, crew-cut blond from Excelsior, Minn., serves as adviser to a South Vietnamese Air Force squadron at Bienhoa Airbase. He likes to fly combat missions, and occasionally he gets a chance. Three weeks ago, at the controls of an A-1H Skyraider, he accompanied Vietnamese planes on a strike against North Viet Nam; last week Lee took part in a raid against a Viet Cong installation...
...many thousands of his fellow Negroes have distinguished themselves in battle. Yet it was not until 1940 that a U.S. Negro attained the rank of general. Fourteen years after General Benjamin Oliver Davis won that distinction, his son, a rangy West Pointer and bemedaled World War II fighter squadron leader, came back from the Korean War to become the first of his race to win the two stars of a major general. Now, after distinguished service as an Air Force Deputy chief of staff in the Pentagon, Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr., 52, is heading back to South Korea, where President...