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Show Page 32 HILL TOP TIMES OSAF Vfobiam New Runway The new 10,000-fo- concret ot ' runway at Cam Ranh Bay AB was opened this week as Mai. Gen. Gordon Graham, Seventh Air Force vice commander, made the first landing in a McDonnell RF-4Phantom. C Col. Levi R. Chase, 47? of Courtland. N.Y.. commander of the 12th Tactical Fighter Wing, praised the construction personnel and all others concerned with ed e, YOU KNOW p0B An Investment In Coins Out-Perform- ed Blue Chip Stocks 6 to in Ten Years! BLUE 1 COIN CHIP STOCKS Indust. 1st year. .$5,500.00 10th yr.. .12,968.69 15th yr.. .20,886.18 "Profit March Uncirculated Rolls 1st yecr . . $6,650.00 10th yr. . . 86,593.75 15th yr.. .360,368.74 your Coin Investment" Hay lings Our Investment Counselor Will Tell You How CALL off FOR APPOINTMENT 399-5- 3 11 432 25th, OGDEN SANDER COIN SHOP Vietnam 'Toughest' Lt. Col. Richard M. Baughn, veteran fighter pilot of World War II and the Korean War, has completed 100 missions over North Vietnam and says today's air war is the "toughest of the three." '5,000 INVESTMENT INVESTMENT 31 Dow Jon Rf. er Colonel Baughn, 42, of Sioux City, Iowa, commander of a Thunderchief Republic squadron, recorded his 569th combat hour in completing mission requirements in Vietnam. F-1- 05 Colonel Baughn said, "You have to admire the pilots, par- ticularly the young lieutenants, who go into this thing with no combat experience. It's really a harrowing job, and it's remarkable that they perform so well in the face of such pressures." Red Buildup Dust Damage Tests Usi"? " Army jeep, Forcp's Office, Aerospace Research (OAR) testing a new zona device in the Art desert to provide g engine lift for copters in Vietnam. The device a clustered lonWr dust-eatin- de separator heli parti is mounted on the intake of the jeep. air Air Force and Marine pilots The separator removes dust made their first strikes in the demilitarized zone separating particles and other foreign oNorth and South Vietnam almost bjects from the air before thev can be sucked into the engine ' three months ago. Estimates show that maiIntelligence estimates that the ntenance on jet aircraft buffer zone was afflicted dust ingebeing used by North Vietnamese stion in Vietnam by last year cost forces as a base for stepped up $100 million. This included rinfiltration into South Vietnam eplacing bearings and complete led to the decision. engines. Strikes in the area proved in"We believe and hope we have telligence estimates conservative the answer to the dust problem." h at best. During the said Lt. Col. Melvin R. Keller, period of intensified air effort, director of OAR's Rfighter-bombpilots triggered esearch LaboratoriesAerospace Energetics more than 1,350 secondary exLaboratory, Wright - Patterson plosions and 74 fires from tar- AFB, Ohio, who thinks the gets in and near the demilita- parator will restore the life sespan rized zone. Also destroyed or to a level comparable of engines damaged were more than 1,500 to in en-gin- three-mont- er Flying against military targets North Vietnam, he faced groundfire and tactical problems which he said were "much aircraft engines worse than anything I've ever enemy structures, 130 vehicles, States. . seen. Nothing in the other two 90 antiaircraft or automatic wars compares to this." weapons and 5 bridges. in 4, 1966 e S the project for, "meeting estab- the ambulance provided medical lished deadlines with engineer- aid for five urgent burn cases between the time the casualties ing miracles." arrived by helicopter until they were placed aboard evacuation Ambulance Bus aircraft. The spaciousness of the An vehicle permitted ambulance bus designed for medi medical personnel to begin infucal support in hot and humid sions and special treatment climates proved its worth the which could not have been done first day in use at Tan Son Nhut in other medical vehicles. Eleven AB. of the ambulances are in use in mobile Used as a short-timSoutheast Asia. holding and treatment facility, 18-litt- November Do-lt-Yours- the United elf Airmen of the 20th Tactical Air Support Squadron don't rely on other units to fix their planes. They do it themselves. Pilots of the squadron air controllers rward are fo(FACs) who direct tactical air strikes against enemy targets in the northern provinces of South Vietnam. Their observation post Cessna 1 is the slow-flyin- g Bird Dog spotter plane. 0-- lit rtRSP While majority of the unit's maintenance men are assigned to quadron headquarters, there are others at remote forward sites. The field sites perform minor maintenance with the major work, such as batttle damage, engine changes and the like, performed at squadron headqua- A rters. "This is where the small size of the Bird Dog is a big adva- ntage," said Squadron Comma44. nder Col. Virgil E. Sansing, of Houston. "If the aircraft isn t is flyable, all we have to do itpull in shove and off the wings Hercule. an Air Force C-1- 30 Supply Goes Univac Standard A fully automated Air Force Supply System (UN-at is in operation IVAC 1050-11- ) Bien-Ho- AB. 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