piggyback, do you know anything else about Biak? I know it had 10 parallel runways and many were overgrown by 1964.
We understood that all 16 TU-16 had dispersed there. I susoect that the threat from the TU-16 was over rated as far as land attack as it was a maritime anti-shipping aircraft. Do you know if it was capable of bombing in AURI service?
Our intel said it would not be effective as they had not been noted to drop bombs. At that time we didn't drop any bobs either.