Aviation artist
Robert Taylor. Aviation art print 'Phantom Strike' by Robert Taylor.Seconds
before reaching the target, Robin Olds pulled up to 200 feet to release
his 500lb M-82 high drag bombs, his two wingmen praying the 10 second
delay fuses would work allowing numbers two and three to release their own
bombs and clear before the lead's bombs detonated. with the infamous
"Thus Ridge" mountain in the background, the airspace in the
valley is filled with 100, 85, and 57mm shell bursts, brightly golored
tracer, snoke and cordite. Behind them the F-4 crews leave a trail
of destruction, the steel mill's blast furnaces billowing flame and dense
smoke. In the words of missions leader Robin Olds "It was the
most dangerous, hair raising mission of all that I flew in both World War
II and South east Asia".
