Death in the Sky: The Vietnam War’s Most Hair-Raising Photo

Pilot’s 1968 selfie shows Soviet missile skimming just under his F-105 in the skies above Hanoi

Excerpted from Midair by Craig K. Collins (Lyons Press)
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Whenever Billy Sparks was hungover, which was often, his fellow pilots would yell out, “Hey, Sparky, let me…