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Old 23rd Dec 2022, 16:47
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Chopper2004: Very kind of you to invite me in here - but my time at Travis ended in early December 1972, so Linebacker II was something I heard about on TV and in the press back in the UK. Insofar as the operation led to the signing of an agreement that saw US POWs released shortly afterwards, it's still a regret that I wasn't there to do my bit in Op Homecoming. I believe it generated quite a number of C-141 sorties.

I do recall doing at least one trip earlier in 72 when the VC offensive in the south got very worrying and all our airdrop training etc went out the window as support flights multiplied. (It was probably the one where I still remember a box of Lino tiles destined for some O Club lashed to the floor under what looked like a WW2 era 25 lb artillery gun! Routine continuing amongst the immediate priority stuff!)
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