Talk:Lima Site 85

Prime source for this article
One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam by Timothy Castle, ISBN 978-0-32110-317-6

A complete recounting of the L85 disaster through 1998 by a reputable historian publishing via Columbia University Press.

Georgejdorner (talk) 22:52, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Lima Site designation in lead
Referenced at present to Conboy's Shadow War. No room in cites used for page numbers&mdash;in this case, pages 103-4.

Georgejdorner (talk) 16:02, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Additional source suggested, 1/9
Editors may wish to include reference to AF Col. (ret'd) Lawrence E. Pence's account of his intelligence coup from the second crashed AN-2, entitled "Freedom Bird" and found at this link: http://1stmob.com/s17.htm. I am in contact with Col. Pence. -- Doug McNeal, 1/9/2017 173.73.12.46 (talk) 04:03, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

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Recommend merge
Battle of Lima Site 85 already covers this site in greater detail in a Good article. Any details from this article that are not included in Battle of Lima Site 85 can be incorporated before deletion.Georgejdorner (talk) 16:35, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

Technicians
The article refers to US troops as "technicians". This sounds like covert language to hide the true nature. Wikipedia should be more clear what they were. Technician could be a computer engineer or something equally benign, and not eg. the SOF. -- Green  C  15:55, 10 February 2024 (UTC)