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Grainy film footage captures the destruction of an F-105D piloted by Major Robert L. Chastain while he tested a new electric proximity fuze at Nellis Air Force Base in December 1968. (Courtesy of the Author)
Grainy film footage captures the destruction of an F-105D piloted by Major Robert L. Chastain while he tested a new electric proximity fuze at Nellis Air Force Base in December 1968. (Courtesy of the Author)