[Milsurplus] RS-6

[Fred Chapman]

Hue .. the book you mentioned (I believe) is:

The Price of Vigilance, Attacks on American Surveillance Flights,
by Larry Tart and Robert Keefe.

Excellent book on the subject .. and is available in paper back.
I am half-way through it.

Fred Chapman W4CHT
Navy-Marine Corps MARS NNN0PPE/NNN0USN
LST-325 Memorial Ship, Radio Room Restoration Coordinator


Hue Miller wrote:

> Re the overflights, the information gathering flights to tickle Soviet radars,
> there's actually a book out now on these flights, it's even in paperback.
> I found it at the local Fred Meyer store, don't recall the title, it's pretty
> prosaically named, something like "Soviet attacks on US Aircraft", 
> seems like almost too restrained a title for the paperback trade.
> 
> I remember as a youngster reading the papers, about such attacks, and
> being properly appalled at the horrid Russian actions. ( "....the target is
> burning. I will finish him off on the run, boys..." - from the newspaper
> in 1958 or '59. ) Now that Cold War pressures and secrecy are (some
> what) over, we can read the other half of the story. No, not anything 
> much on radio in that book, except the transcription of the Soviet
> fighter radio traffic in the above incident, and the blaming of another
> interception over Armenia on "Soviet decoy beacons". (Right.) 
> In war, it seems ANY war, "truth" is flexible.
> Hue  Miller
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