John D. Morrocco, 'F-117A Fighter Used in Combat for First Time in Panama, 'Aviation Week and Space Technology (January 1, 1990), 32.
Letters, Newsweek (July 16, 1990), 12.
Kenneth Freed, 'Panama Tries to Bury Rumors of Mass Graves,' Los Angeles Times, October 27, 1990, sec. A.
'Bombing Run on Congress,' Time (January 8, 1990), 43. F-117A pilots have spent considerable time denying the plane was ever called the 'Wobbly Goblin.' Many have called it the best-handling plane they have ever flown. The fact that the press continued to use the term into 1992 says more about their 'accuracy' than that of the plane.
'Stealth error kept under wraps,' San Diego Union, April 7, 1990, sec. A; and 'General didn't report Stealth flaws in Panama,' San Diego Tribune, July 2, 1990, sec. A. The final word on the F-117A's first combat mission came from a Newsweek press pool member. The reporter told a Department of Defense public relations officer that he did not think the F-117A attack was that significant, as no one could hear it coming. The officer laughed in the reporter's face.
Charles Krauthammer, 'Don't Cash the Peace Dividend,' Time (March 26, 1990), 88.
Bruce Van Voorst, 'Who Needs the Marines? From the Halls of Mon-tezuma to the Shores of Redundancy,' Time (May 21, 1990), 28; and Bill Turque and Douglas Waller, 'Warriors without War,' Newsweek (March 19, 1990), 18–21.
'Three early Iraqi incursions are revealed,' San Diego Union, October 7, 1990, sec. A.
Giangreco, Stealth Fighter Pilot, 66–73.
Macy, Destination Baghdad, 19, 20; and Giangreco, Stealth Fighter Pilot, 86.
Jolly and Shelton, Team Stealth F-117, 52, 54, 56.
Giangreco, Stealth Fighter Pilot, 82–84.
Hallion, Storm over Iraq, 2, 159, 162. Such press criticism sometimes backfired— a 'leading journalist' on a Washington, D.C., news show announced the B-2 would be used in the Gulf, while another commented that it would have to 'do better than it did in Panama'!
Gulf War Air Power Survey, vol. II, part I (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1993), 113.
