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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