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10 May 1970 – A category F5 tornado strikes Lubbock, Texas destroying about one-quarter of the city. Nineteen of 23 USAF trainers at Lubbock International Airport are destroyed, as well as 100 private planes. “At 8:10 pm, an off-duty Lubbock police officer spotted a funnel cloud on the east side of the city, and grapefruit-size […]

12 May 1965 – Operation Rolling Thunder was the codename for an American bombing campaign whereby U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. Before Operation Rolling Thunder started the North Vietnamese knew it was coming. On 12 May 1965, President Johnson halted the bombing of North Vietnam under

The Story from Jim… The Tallest Tree Lots of guys took hits in Vietnam … and a few unlucky ones got shot down.  I was one of the unlucky ones.  Here’s the story. It’s “Mother’s Day” 1969, I’m 11 months into my Vietnam tour, and the sun is just coming up at Bien Hoa. Air