The B-66 played many rolls during the cold war one of which I took part was based at Yokota AB, Japan. The very place that I was at ten years earlier as a gunner during the Korean War. Now I flound myself asigned to a B-66 squadren patroling the China Coast just short of the no fly zone. Once and While a Mig (15) would come up along side of us, but there was never any engagement by them. But that didn't mean that we were not prepared for action.
The B-66 respectively refered to as a led sled because it took the full length of the runway to beome airborn. I recall upon our return to base the gear would lower, and I had to use the alternate method which ment I had to make my way to the belly of the aikrcraft, and manuely operate the hydrolic system. When I positioned the valves, and engaged the systems alternate method of lowering the gear a line came loose, and I was drenched with hydrolic fluid. There was enough presure to lower the gear, and we landed safely.
