From: "Adam Flinton" 


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> Replying to a message of Adam Flinton to Bob.Ackley:
>
>  AF> Then again they also downed US aircraft over the middle of the soviet
>  AF> union (powers) & or armenia (part of the USSR) & in a
couple of other
>  AF> places.
>
> That's a little bit different, those aircraft were in Soviet airspace.
> It's interesting that Matthias Rust managed to fly a single engine private
> plane from Europe to Moscow and land it in Red Square - without even being
> detected - let alone shot down - until just before landing.
>

They were probably looking high & fast....

>
>  AF> Yup & the Israeli's shot the hell out of the liberty &
forced a US
>  AF> spyplane to land at Lod.
>
> I knew about the Liberty, I'd not heard about a *reconnaissance* aircraft
being
> forced down.
>

Yup.


>  AF> Did the US deploy squadrons of attack aircraft to israel's neighbors?
>
> AAMOF when USS America scrambled fighters to go to Liberty's assistance -
from
> several hundred miles away - President Johnson ordered them to get those
planes
> back on the deck.
>

it's ye olde Seoul with artillery range thing....

Adam

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