In 1971, just off the coast of South Africa, one of the worst environmental disasters at sea shocked the world. Hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil-contaminated waters and beaches close to the site before efforts were made to move the stricken ship out of harm’s way.
However, in what might be the only recorded case of the use of bombers to save lives, Cold War bombers were used to help stop the developing ecological disaster.
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