Jay Taffet seated in an F-4 jet belonging to the 117th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing in Birmingham, Alabama.

He and his father, Air Force Colonel Robert Taffet, were preparing to fly side-by-side in the backseats of two RF-4C Phantom jets. (Taffet, a junior at Vanderbilt University, was an Air Force ROTC pilot candidate and planned to go to flight training after graduation.)

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Atchison, David
Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/212545