How A Former U.S. Navy Captain Helped Avoid A Nuclear War | United Stories of America®

The shortest flight of his career was over in “10 or 15 seconds” - when a botched catapult launch dumped Herb Zoehrer's aircraft into the ocean where he was rescued by Midway crewmembers. His longest flights? Going low and slow, chasing enemy submarines. In the Cuban Missile Crisis, Herb and his fellow airmen stepped up to maintain a fragile peace.
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