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I Always Wanted to Fly ..........................8712$$ $$FM 05-21-0115:30:04 PS I Always ..........................8712$$ $$FM 05-21-0115:30:21 PS Wanted to Fly America’s Cold War Airmen Colonel Wolfgang W. E. Samuel With a foreword by Ken Hechler UniversityPressofMississippi Jackson ..........................8712$$ $$FM 05-21-0115:30:49 PS www.upress.state.ms.us Copyright(cid:1)2001byWolfgangW.E.Samuel Allrightsreserved ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica PaintingonpagesiiandiiibyGeorgeBack.A1965MiG-17attackonanRB-47H reconnaissanceaircraftofftheeastcoastofNorthKorea. 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 4 3 2 1 (cid:2)(cid:1) LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Samuel,WolfgangW.E. Ialwayswantedtofly:America’sColdWarairmen/WolfgangW.E.Samuel. p. cm. ISBN1-57806-399-X(cloth:alk.paper) 1. Airpilots,Military—UnitedStates—Biography. 2. ColdWar. 3. UnitedStatesAir Force—Officers—Biography. I. Title. UG626.S26 2001 358.4(cid:2)0092—dc21 [B] 2001026039 BritishLibraryCataloging-in-PublicationDataavailable ..........................8712$$ $$FM 05-21-0115:30:49 PS Totheflyerswhogavetheirlives duringtheColdWarfrom1945to 1991intheservice oftheircountry. InmemoryofthefriendsIserved withwhodidnotreturnfromtheir lastflights. ..........................8712$$ $$FM 05-21-0115:30:49 PS ..........................8712$$ PRT2 05-21-0115:30:29 PS Contents Foreword xi PrefaceandAcknowledgments xv Part1:TheBerlinAirlift,1948 1 1. MenoftheAirlift 12 ColonelHowardS.‘‘Sam’’MyersJr. FirstLieutenantLeonardW.Sweet FirstLieutenantMarshallM.Balfe ColonelHaroldR.Austin LieutenantColonelEdwardGorski LieutenantColonelJosephF.Laufer ColonelRobertS.Hamill 2. TheBomberBoys 56 ColonelJosephJ.Gyulavics 3. ‘‘RampRats’’:TheMenWhoKeptThemFlying 72 MasterSergeantThomasW.Etherson Part2:Korea,1950 87 4. TheF-51MustangsfromDogpatch 95 ColonelCharlesE.Schreffler vii ..........................8712$$ CNTS 05-21-0115:30:15 PS Contents 5. NightInterdictionintheB-26Invader 104 LieutenantColonelByronA.DobbsJr. ColonelRichardG.‘‘Dick’’Schulz 6. TheB-29BomberWar 119 ColonelJosephJ.Gyulavics 7. B-FlightoutofKimpo:SpecialOperations 126 ColonelDavidM.Taylor Part3:StrategicReconnaissance 145 8. TamingtheRB-45CTornado 152 ColonelHaroldR.Austin 9. RecontotheYaluandBeyond 160 ColonelHowardS.‘‘Sam’’MyersJr. MasterSergeantArthurE.Lidard 10. MoreSecretThantheManhattanProject 175 ColonelMarionC.Mixson LieutenantColonelFrancisT.MartinJr. 11. ChallengingtheRussianBear 196 ColonelHaroldR.Austin 12. FlyingtheTopoftheWorld 215 ColonelCharlesL.PhillipsJr. 13. TheLastFlightof3-4290 230 MajorGeorgeV.Back CaptainHenryE.Dubuy LieutenantColonelJoelJ.Lutkenhouse LieutenantColonelRobertJ.Rogers viii ..........................8712$$ CNTS 05-21-0115:30:15 PS Contents Part4:Vietnam,1965 257 14. Hambone02 267 ColonelRalphL.KusterJr. 15. LincolnFlight 300 ColonelKevinA.‘‘Mike’’Gilroy 16. Yellowbird 323 MajorFredE.‘‘Ed’’Rider TheMagicofFlying:ConcludingThoughts 341 Glossary 345 Bibliography 349 Interviews,Letters,andTapes 353 Index 355 ix ..........................8712$$ CNTS 05-21-0115:30:15 PS

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Until now, no book has covered all of Cold War air combat in the words of the men who waged it. In I Always Wanted to Fly, retired United States Air Force Colonel Wolfgang W. E. Samuel has gathered first-person memories from heroes of the cockpits and airstrips. Battling in dogfights when jets were
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I Always Wanted to Fly ..........................8712$$ $$FM 05-21-0115:30:04 PS I Always ..........................8712$$ $$FM 05-21-0115:30:21 PS Wanted to Fly America’s Cold War Airmen Colonel Wolfgang W. E. Samuel With a foreword by Ken Hechler UniversityPressofMississippi Jackson ..........................8712$$ $$FM 05-21-0115:30:49 PS www.upress.state.ms.us Copyright(cid:1)2001byWolfgangW.E.Samuel Allrightsreserved ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica PaintingonpagesiiandiiibyGeorgeBack.A1965MiG-17attackonanRB-47H reconnaissanceaircraftofftheeastcoastofNorthKorea. 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 4 3 2 1 (cid:2)(cid:1) LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Samuel,WolfgangW.E. Ialwayswantedtofly:America’sColdWarairmen/WolfgangW.E.Samuel. p. cm. ISBN1-57806-399-X(cloth:alk.paper) 1. Airpilots,Military—UnitedStates—Biography. 2. ColdWar. 3. UnitedStatesAir Force—Officers—Biography. I. Title. UG626.S26 2001 358.4(cid:2)0092—dc21 [B] 2001026039 BritishLibraryCataloging-in-PublicationDataavailable ..........................8712$$ $$FM 05-21-0115:30:49 PS Totheflyerswhogavetheirlives duringtheColdWarfrom1945to 1991intheservice oftheircountry. InmemoryofthefriendsIserved withwhodidnotreturnfromtheir lastflights. ..........................8712$$ $$FM 05-21-0115:30:49 PS ..........................8712$$ PRT2 05-21-0115:30:29 PS Contents Foreword xi PrefaceandAcknowledgments xv Part1:TheBerlinAirlift,1948 1 1. MenoftheAirlift 12 ColonelHowardS.‘‘Sam’’MyersJr. FirstLieutenantLeonardW.Sweet FirstLieutenantMarshallM.Balfe ColonelHaroldR.Austin LieutenantColonelEdwardGorski LieutenantColonelJosephF.Laufer ColonelRobertS.Hamill 2. TheBomberBoys 56 ColonelJosephJ.Gyulavics 3. ‘‘RampRats’’:TheMenWhoKeptThemFlying 72 MasterSergeantThomasW.Etherson Part2:Korea,1950 87 4. TheF-51MustangsfromDogpatch 95 ColonelCharlesE.Schreffler vii ..........................8712$$ CNTS 05-21-0115:30:15 PS Contents 5. NightInterdictionintheB-26Invader 104 LieutenantColonelByronA.DobbsJr. ColonelRichardG.‘‘Dick’’Schulz 6. TheB-29BomberWar 119 ColonelJosephJ.Gyulavics 7. B-FlightoutofKimpo:SpecialOperations 126 ColonelDavidM.Taylor Part3:StrategicReconnaissance 145 8. TamingtheRB-45CTornado 152 ColonelHaroldR.Austin 9. RecontotheYaluandBeyond 160 ColonelHowardS.‘‘Sam’’MyersJr. MasterSergeantArthurE.Lidard 10. MoreSecretThantheManhattanProject 175 ColonelMarionC.Mixson LieutenantColonelFrancisT.MartinJr. 11. ChallengingtheRussianBear 196 ColonelHaroldR.Austin 12. FlyingtheTopoftheWorld 215 ColonelCharlesL.PhillipsJr. 13. TheLastFlightof3-4290 230 MajorGeorgeV.Back CaptainHenryE.Dubuy LieutenantColonelJoelJ.Lutkenhouse LieutenantColonelRobertJ.Rogers viii ..........................8712$$ CNTS 05-21-0115:30:15 PS Contents Part4:Vietnam,1965 257 14. Hambone02 267 ColonelRalphL.KusterJr. 15. LincolnFlight 300 ColonelKevinA.‘‘Mike’’Gilroy 16. Yellowbird 323 MajorFredE.‘‘Ed’’Rider TheMagicofFlying:ConcludingThoughts 341 Glossary 345 Bibliography 349 Interviews,Letters,andTapes 353 Index 355 ix ..........................8712$$ CNTS 05-21-0115:30:15 PS

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Until now, no book has covered all of Cold War air combat in the words of the men who waged it. In I Always Wanted to Fly, retired United States Air Force Colonel Wolfgang W. E. Samuel has gathered first-person memories from heroes of the cockpits and airstrips. Battling in dogfights when jets were
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