From: micdunn (micdunn@ev1.net)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 23:09:15 PST
I remember it well, it was the 15th of April 1986 and we were crossing
Moammar Quadaffi's "Line of Death" in Libya. The French were afraid that
they would have Arab terrorist attacks if they gave us permission to
overfly. So instead, we (the USAF F-111's) flew from England (they were not
afraid) around France and Spain, through the Strait of Gibraltar into the
Mediterranean and across the "Line of Death".
Quadaffi has been a lot quieter since then.
-Sarge
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Burke" <julian@knology.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 9:56 PM
Subject: [MV] The French
> With all of the talk of the French and how we hate them now, wasn't
it
> France some years back that wouldn't let us fly over their air space to
get
> to a military objective?? As I remember, there were some un-Americans
that
> said "Thank you France" much like the un-Americans who are going to
Bagdad
> to act as "human shields". How lest we forget! Julian
>
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