Among the first U.S. reconnaissance aircraft in Southeast Asia, the RF-101Cs from PACAF's squadrons spent long periods of temporary duty at Don Muang Airport and Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand and at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam, photographing vital objectives in Laos and South Vietnam to provide most of the intelligence used by U.S. and South Vietnamese forces. When the United States finally decided to bomb targets in North Vietnam, RF-101C pilots took the first prestrike and poststrike photographs and led the Air Force and Vietnamese strike aircraft to the targets. The...

The Origin of the Red Rose and other Native Stories In the deep murk of Loch Ness lurks a monster... Welcome to the land of wild witches and wild roses. The Island of the Dead. Land of the Setting Sun. The home of the Gentleman Spy and countless forgotten gods. A collection of original and traditional native British and Irish stories retold for children, delving deep into mythic history and folklore. These stories use the humour and violent morality of the Celts to recreate a British people living in a forest-covered island, a land of mysterious creatures and magic that is long gone. A land...

Ten stories from Britain and Ireland's mythic history for the Key Stage 2 classroom (7-11 year olds). Want to find out where the red rose comes from? Or who (or what...) Robin Hood really was? Train up the mythologists of the future with the activities that accompany each story. The stories in this book: The Origin of the Red Rose, The Battle of the Trees, Blodeuwedd, The Battle of Cooley, Robin Hood, The Upside Down Witch, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Valley of the Deaf, The Green Children of Woolpit, The Loch Ness Monster. The follow-up activities include: Design a computer game,...