My brother was in an F-111 on that raid. He thinks he might have seen his friends hit the water that night (one F-111 didn't make it). A bright fiery plume on the sea surface - which would happen as water is injested into a jet engine. Who knows. But the fatigue from an incredibly long journey around self-serving France might have played a part.
Thanks for reminding me. I need to take this over to the other thread on this subject where one particular frenchman is arguing that France kicks the US in the teeth out of some high-level mutual strategery to influence non-aligned countries. He'll probably show up on this thread as well.
How well I recall that scenario.
Courteousy of Lt. General David Nichols, USAF, Moamar had a very real "come to Jesus" meeting - we missed him by fifteen minutes.