Wow excellent story, reminds me of that sad incident where the USN had to throw UH-1’s over the side because so many choppers were coming in. I was watching a docco the other night about the South Vietnamese Foregin Minister life and they showed a Huey landing in the water because there was no room on the deck. I really don’t think we’ll ever see anything like this ever again, all that good equipment going to waste, had the US been more watchful then they could have deployed some of their transport carriers in order to save some of the planes and choppers.

IMO if they “had been more watchful” they should have sent the libs to hell and won the war, thus saving those poor Vietnamese people from decades of Stalinist tyranny, but I see your point.

Here’s one of the helos dumped overboard.

From memory this was a South Vietnamese Pilot and his family.

VNAF Major Ly-Bung, indeed.

4. As pointed out already, they are/were Zephyrs, these were produced for the French Navy because the French didn’t want to buy foregin trainers for their home fleet, IIRC something like 25 were eventually built and the last retired from front line duties in 1995.

Good call. 30 were produced, including the 2 protos.

The other loser to B-47: Martin’s B-48.

Convair B-46. Lost to the B-47 from Boeing.

Want to check your source? I forget the exact number of British fatalities during the conflict, but it’s not a million miles away from 240.

You are absolutely right. About 250 for the British forces.
1000 is more like all killed, both Brits (~250) and Argies (~750). My silly mistake, thanks for pointing out.

And as for nuking a remote Argentinian naval base… hmm… I’m not sure whether to find your comment amusing or alarming.

That’s your problem. I sure would rather extermine the whole frigging invading nation rather than decide to get 250 of my soldiers killed. No qualms about it.
But then again, I care about the lives of my soldiers, not about being PC or re-elected next year.

SR-71, (used for operational non-stop reconnaissance flights over Egypt, Israel, and Syria during the Yom Kipper War 1973/74), Operation “Giant Reach” OL-SB started on 11 October 1973 and the first mission was flown on 13 October, 1973.
Israel thought it going to get crushed by the invading arab armies and started arming it’s nuke missiles (Jericho) That’s when the SR-71 showed up unannounced

Those timelines aren’t right at all.
Israel may have “thought it was going to be crushed” during the first days of Yom Kippur War –Maybe. But certainly not by the 13th of October.

For those who would have lost track of the dates, that war started on 06-Oct-1973. It was indeed very tought during the first 3 days on the Nortern front, before the reserves arrived to the battle lines. But by the 11th, the Syrian army had been defeated and thoroughly repulsed — to beyond the pre-war positions.

On the other side, Egypt wasn’t yet defeated by the 13th (it took another 2-3 days until the breakthrough to the canal and crossing at Deversoir), but there was never any risk that Israel “was going to be crushed” there, given the strategic depth.

Just to cast some perspective on the accuracy of such texts as reference sources. :rolleyes: 😀