VO-67 vets are finally getting some public recognition for their work. I knew a couple of folks who went to VO-67 and a couple who came to VP-1 when they decomm'ed. BZ, guys. Here's to you...
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It's about time - (VO-67 finally recognized)
- Thread starter Flugelman
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U.S. to honor members of squadron in 'secret war'
Interesting Star-Telegram article about the Navy's "Ghost Squadron", VO-67, flying the P-2 Neptune during Vietnam.
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Interesting Star-Telegram article about the Navy's "Ghost Squadron", VO-67, flying the P-2 Neptune during Vietnam.
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Here is an interesting article about a Navy (and one Marine) crew from VQ-1that was shot down 15 April 1969 by North Korean fighters. It was murder, plain and simple.
http://www.willyvictor.com/History/Korean_Shootdown/Korea.html
also:
http://www.dean-boys.com/shootdown/shoot.htm
Nixon decided that the best course of action was to do nothing. Vietnam was already a mess, and he did not want to open the door to new fighting in North Korea. Talk about a crappy job. Snooping off the coast of a hostile nation with no self defense, and no fighter cover.
http://www.willyvictor.com/History/Korean_Shootdown/Korea.html
also:
http://www.dean-boys.com/shootdown/shoot.htm
Nixon decided that the best course of action was to do nothing. Vietnam was already a mess, and he did not want to open the door to new fighting in North Korea. Talk about a crappy job. Snooping off the coast of a hostile nation with no self defense, and no fighter cover.
Take a look at the PDF link at the bottom of the page. Recon was dangerous business around the commies
http://www.nsa.gov/vigilance/index.cfm
http://www.nsa.gov/vigilance/index.cfm
There is a plaque that still hangs in VQ-1's entrance to the squadron spaces for the crew. We held a small ceremony in remembrance to the crew every year, we were still very aware of the danger even 30 years later.
Nothing "new" there ... SOP for UNCLE to put people out there up shit creek w/ out a paddle. I'm certain you've heard of these guys:
Bevo said:
Not totally -- Rube Goldberg, to be sure, but at least it goes "BANG". A VO-67 "add-on" ...
In the Summer of '68, every weekly issue of Navy Times seemed to list several KIA's on VO-67. IMO, the P-2V was just too big & too slow for a low-level mission over the Ho Chi Minh Trail. A lot of good people lost their lives in this unit.
Albeit a threadjack this needs a bit of context. Nixon Administration had been in office less than 3 months. Think the shootdown was a test of the new POTUS. Example, look forward to Bush 2 and the Chinese "incident" with the EP-3 that ended up on Hainan, clearly a test of the new POTUS. Further, the incident was just 4 months after the release of the Pueblo crew. Aboard the Pueblo, and still in NK hands, were all active SICRs in our National Security posture. Ergo, the NK's knew the routes of all the Intel flights up and down the coast, where the flight originated and where they terminated and the identification of all emitters we were interested in, what we knew of them and more importantly what we did not know, and at why the interest.
We can look forward to more "tests" in the near-term, IMHO. I hope not, but ....
Yes, it did happen on Kim Il Sung's birthday, who knows if it was a present or not
. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Il-sung
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EC-121_shootdown_incident
And yet another link for a slide show. http://sb1.thefifthnetwork.com/VCMS...-5f04-459c-8f39-88d7a2a04561&channelId=ID0EXF
abracadabra11
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What an interestingly refreshing story. Thank you.