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Shattered Souls

Thinking Sideways: Who was Colonel Tomb?

Shattered Souls

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

During the Vietnam War the US military recorded the feats of Vietnamese flying ace Colonel Tomb. However after the war it was discovered that the Vietnamese People's Air Force had no record of this pilot. Did he exist, and if so who was he?

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0:00.0

Thinking sideways is not brought to you by the UFO hidden on the one dollar bill.

0:05.0

Instead it's brought to you by...

0:08.0

There's a new season of a really great podcast in the dark.

0:12.0

That's right, there's a new podcast.

0:14.0

It's back with the second season.

0:17.0

In the first season, in the dark or in the pee body,

0:19.0

for its in depth coverage of the Jacob Wetterling kidnapping.

0:23.0

Season 2, they're going to explore a new story with life or death consequences.

0:27.0

In this case, it's four people who were killed in a small town of Mississippi.

0:31.0

And one black man on death row who has been tried six times for their murder.

0:36.0

You can find in the dark now on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever else you might listen.

0:57.0

Hello comrades and welcome again to another episode of Thinking sideways.

1:06.0

I am Steve, as always, joined by...

1:09.0

Devon.

1:10.0

And Joe.

1:11.0

And once again, we've got a mystery for you.

1:14.0

What?

1:15.0

Yeah, what does the mystery this week, comrades?

1:17.0

Well, this week we're going to do another Vietnam War mystery.

1:21.0

And I think that unlike the last one, most people are going to like it.

1:25.0

The basic overview or our mystery is that during the Vietnam War,

1:30.0

a Vietnam people's Air Force pilot identified by US intelligence as win-tune,

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