HISTORY, ORGANIZATION AND ROLES OF THE NIGERIAN AIR FORCE INTRODUCTION

During this period, the two sides fought desperately to hold their positions. In each of the Communist assaults on the ARVN firebases and relief columns, NVA forces expe-

Ghulam Mustafa Tayer – who fifty years earlier had become the first of his countrymen to earn pilot wings in the United States – addressed the pilots and

One month after the unproductive effort in the Southwest Pacific, an Eleventh Air Force photo reconnaissance mission in the Aleutians revealed a probable Japanese

North Vietnam used the Pathet Lao to protect the western flank of the Ho Chi Minh Trail; the United States hoped to safeguard the radar sites in Laos that directed the

As the size of the American ground forces rose steadily from 23,000 at the end of 1965 to 536,000 four years later, the mission of the Air Force shifted from advising

At this level, the directorate had three primary sections: Operations (INO), which provided current intelligence updates for SAC lead- ership as well as key information for

That the weather was proving to be a severe challenge to the men in the flight was indi- cated by the remarks of Major Royce, who expressed the opinion that the “ships

Claring bould, “Rabaul’s Ultimate Mystery: The Loss of Brigadier-General Kenneth N. Tanaguchi’s three fighters were appar- ently observed by the B–24s {Report, Mission IV,