From: Bill Lucy 

Out of darkness, George Sherwood says...

> Fighters on alert most likely either Okinawa, South Korea or Misawa,
> Japan.  Too far to be much use.  Many times I was intercepted by Russian
> Fighters.  Not a big deal at all. I would guess the RC-135 was returning
> to base and once the fighters got far enough away they turned around.
> There haven't been any NK fighter intercepts for over 30 years.  That one
> in International waters didn't turn out too well:
>
> http://www.imjinscout.com/EC-121_Shootdown.html

I heard stories about that shootdown from a friend in the Navy at the time (I was a
bit young ). He was in Yakasuka at the time and he was enraged.
The letter I got
was hard to read actually.

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