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With Honor: Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and
Politics
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850:Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892
587:. Univ of Wisconsin Press. pp.
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860:Seaboard World Airlines Flight 253A
790:Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge incident
127:call-sign: "Gold 2" (or "Cream 2")
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990:North Central Airlines Flight 458
523:Mitchell, Jon (4 December 2012).
446:"U.S. Plane Crashes in Okinawa".
810:South African Airways Flight 228
666:Aviation accidents and incidents
549:Steve Rabson (14 January 2013).
870:BKS Air Transport Flight C.6845
750:Sainte-Marie Douglas DC-6 crash
579:Dale Van Atta (29 April 2008).
244:(serial number 55-0103) of the
214:B-52 crashed at Kadena Air Base
19:1968 Kadena Air Base B-52 crash
890:Los Angeles Airways Flight 417
840:Los Angeles Airways Flight 841
612:Mitchell, Jon (27 July 2013).
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960:Allegheny Airlines Flight 736
910:Northeast Airlines Flight 946
720:Civil Air Transport Flight 10
482:"Okinawa Asks B-52 Removal".
464:"Bomber Explodes at Kadena".
311:," leaving the crew to use a
1072:November 1968 events in Asia
710:Indian Air Force An-12 crash
468:. Okinawa. 20 November 1968.
383:storage area and presumably
280:Resultant fire and explosion
770:Yuri Gagarin's MiG-15 crash
256:while it was conducting an
118:Boeing B-52D Stratofortress
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880:El Al Flight 426 hijacking
780:Ozark Air Lines Flight 965
486:. Japan. 21 November 1968.
450:. Japan. 19 November 1968.
321:Electronic Warfare Officer
302:Recovery and investigation
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406:1959 Okinawa F-100 crash
416:1977 Yokohama F-4 crash
350:. The weapons included
234:United States Air Force
212:On 19 November 1968, a
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411:1964 Machida F-8 crash
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1041:Categories
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508:2 February
422:References
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203:Survivors
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72:Okinawa
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