Question For Ed Rasimus

[Frank Hitlaw]

In a recent post having to do with F4 radar you commented about a"good
GIB" raised a question that I hadn't thought about before.In Thailand
did you have any control who was in your WSO like the Weasels? Or was
it a matter of just seeing who was on the flight schedule with you?

I haven't found your book yet,as this part of the world doesn't have
much in the way of book stores(Jakarta Indonesia). Went to Singapore
last week stopped at a Borders franchise and it was sold out.
Thanks,Frank;

[Ed Rasimus]

(MLenoch) wrote:

>>Went to Singapore
>>last week stopped at a Borders franchise and it was sold out.
>
>Ed: Why would your book be sold out in the far east and not in the US? Do
>they have a need for this information more than we do? Is there something
>militarily significant about this?
>Just some thoughts.........
>(Thx for writing your book, BTW!!).
>V. Lenoch

I suspect small number shipped that way. I didn't even know that it
was being distributed world wide, although someone had emailed me
links to the Japanese Amazon.com site as well as the UK Amazon.com.
Both places had the book listed.

Second printing going on right now. Thanks to all the folks who've
made it a success.

Am getting serious about the F-4 story now. Maybe you'll see it by
next fall--'04.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (ret)
***"When Thunder Rolled:
*** An F-105 Pilot Over N. Vietnam"
*** from Smithsonian Books
ISBN: 1588341038

[David Lednicer]

DeBellevue was on leave when Ritchie scored his kill on May 31, 1972.
Story is that Ritchie begged him not to go on leave, as he sensed a kill
coming. If I remember right, after Ritchie got his fifth kill, he was
taken off flight status. DeBellevue kept flying and got two more with
John Madden on September 9, 1972.

Of Jeff Feinstein's five kills, he flew with four different pilots...