I can’t go into too much detail on it, but I served with someone who’d been with a government team of people from various agencies looking over the broken arrow incident at Thule in the 60s (BUFF crash with several nukes, ending the “Chrome Dome” missions. The HE charges went off on most/all of them but the primaries did not), and was at Greenland in the late 90s. He told me that while he was there, he asked about the Kee Bird incident as it hadn’t been but just a few years. One of the higher-level USAF folks there told him that the base HQ was well aware of the recovery operation at the time. What the USAF didn’t tell anyone at the time was they were going to ground the B-29 the moment it landed there had they recovered the plane. From what I’d gathered, they were going to ground the plane until it met USAF standards to leave, which would have meant a great deal more work to be done. Given the bare-bones nature of the operation, I’d think that the B-29 would possibly be still sitting on the ramp or in a hangar at Thule had they managed to get it off the ice and to that field. I can’t imagine it’d been in the states for the Reno air races that year, anyway.
agent86 wrote:
approx.20 yrs ago,I had kidney stones and believe me .they hurt.worst pain in my life.took MORPHINE to settle me down
Yeah, I had a huge one in 1996, they had to use lithotripsy (sp?) to break it up and it just congealed and two nights later I felt like I was going to die. If I'd been able to get to gun I would have shot myself it hurt
that much. I can't say I wouldn't wish it on
anyone, but I can't think of anyone I dislike that much personally...