"Why Not Minot?"- - - - -well, according to a comment by one of the locals- - - - -"We've got 10 months of hard winter, and two months of lousy snow skiing!

One of the D-model BUF's I worked on at Kadena in the early 1970's is the one on display at the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio. I watched some of the panels on the battle damage diagram that's displayed with the plane getting repaired before its next sortie over Hanoi- - - - where it collected a few more holes- - - -etc.
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!