a couple of questions concerning Western Ranger ex.
1-has anyone heard about Vulcans penertrating north american airspace
by flying at 0 feet up the st.lawrence river.
2-was a Vulcan lost during these exercises.
There was a book; published in the early 1960's; titled "The Penetrators". The plot was based on a penetration of US airspace by Vulcans in order to demonstrate the vulnerability of the US to air attack. Parts of the book were probably loosely based on Ex Sky Shield to which Beagle refers and in the course of "the attack" a Vulcan is lost. The author plainly had some insight into V-force operations and some of the detail is good, but it is fiction. It is just possible that this might be the source of the story that timex' heard.
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