2. What did the sailor do on the Kitty Hawk at the Viet Nam War? A. weaved clothes for the pilots. B. repaired the wooden table in the ship. C. helped the jets start. D. packed the parachutes for the fighter pilots. 3. What does the writer think we should do? A. We should ...
阅读理解 Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet fighter pilot in Viet Nam.After 75 missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile.Plumb parachuted down into enemy hands.He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison. One
At left, March, 1969, the "Reserve Pier" in San Diego - the Cusk returns from her last Cold War and Vietnam War patrols. A Navy band plays on the pier as friends and families wait to greet their loved ones after an eight month absence. In the center picture, LCDR Tom Arnold (left...
And it was not long ago that the US Congress and White House basically appropriated another $18 billion worth of F-15 fighter jets at US taxpayer expense. And this was after, you know, the explosion of Israeli aggression in the south of Gaza. And Israel has just been on kind of a no...
Then, as noted by DANFS, “She became the first of her class to have jets make touch-and-go landings on the flight deck while she had no way on, a dangerous experiment successfully conducted on 9 June 1954.” Her service as a carrier complete after two wars,Gilbert Islandsleft Rhode Is...
US-made F-16 fighter jets in action. (photo credit: REUTERS) General Daniel Bolger, a leader of tens of thousands of US soldiers in Iraq, recently wrote a book titled,Why We Lost. It highlights the lessons learned in a war that ended in 2011. However, just three years and several Isl...
Meanwhile, to distract attention, there is talk now about a subtle shift in the US policy regarding supply of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine in an indeterminate future. In reality, though, no one can tell what the Ukrainian rump state will look like when the jets arrive.Unsurprisingly, the ...
to numb basic human feelings at costs they may have paid for decades after the war ended, as we know twentieth and twenty-first-century soldiers from Vietnam to Iraq continue to do; men who like James Garfield, were never quite the same again after seeing fields of slaughtered bodies destro...
Americans troops leave Vietnam Chick Harrity/AP An American GI takes a nap atop his luggage March 27, 1973, as he and other troops wait to begin out-processing at Camp Alpha in Saigon as withdrawal of U.S. troops resume after a 10-day dispute over prisoners of war. ...