Thou Shalt Not Fly… (Party 1)

A stand-down order would normally follow a crash or shootdown of a 35th Sq. U-2. After the deadly crash of Billy Chang’s (張燮) U-2 on January 5, 1969, Detachment H halted its reconnaissance operations for three months, in the mean time converting to the more advanced U-2R. Since then, stand-down orders from Washington were increasingly for political reasons…

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