A couple of months back you published an article about Kham Duc, I saw it at the library but before I could look at it a second time the magazine was stolen. Imagine that.
Anyway, in the picture background was a gunship from the Sharks, 174th AHC, my old unit. I would like a copy of that picture if you can tell me where you got it.
I was at Kham Duc when we evacuated in May 1968 and a...
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Boonierat replied 2 months, 2 weeks ago
There you got mate
You can buy it directly from CORBIS in much better quality if you wish:
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Boonierat replied 2 months, 2 weeks ago
By the way Don, I suppose you know this one already, truly great pic of Sharks gunships:
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rotorwash replied 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Yeh Boonie, this one and many others were taken by Fred Thompson, who unfortunately passed away from cancer a couple of years ago.
I put out a request on the unit website for pictures or videos I could use in my classroom presentation on Viet Nam and Fred sent me three VHS tapes of videos and slides and told me to use them any way I saw fit. This picture is on there. It was taken at Gia ...
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Yeh Boonie, this one and many others were taken by Fred Thompson, who unfortunately passed away from cancer a couple of years ago.
I put out a request on the unit website for pictures or videos I could use in my classroom presentation on Viet Nam and Fred sent me three VHS tapes of videos and slides and told me to use them any way I saw fit. This picture is on there. It was taken at Gia ...
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Vietnam Magazine replied 2 months ago
Vietnam vet Max Cleland, former Veterans Administration head and US Senator, speaks frankly about his war wounds, surviving post traumatic stress disorder, Walter Reed and Karl Rove, the inspiring Gen. Hal Moore, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Intrepid Air Force Pararescue Jumpers, flying from a secret CIA landing strip in Laos, evade North Vietnamese MiG-17s 75 miles north of Hanoi during one of the Vietnam War's most harrowing helicopter missions to rescue a downed American F-105 pilot
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dredko replied 2 months ago
The cover picture for Vietnam magazine December 2009 shows a hoist rescue by the crew of an HH-43. It is listed as "Air Force pararescue Jumpers hoist a wounded soldier of deep in the jungle in 1966" and was apparently from the Larry Burrows collection.
Does anyone have any information about this photo? I lived with several pilots of Detachment 6, 38th ARRSq based at Bien Hoa Air Base ...
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The cover picture for Vietnam magazine December 2009 shows a hoist rescue by the crew of an HH-43. It is listed as "Air Force pararescue Jumpers hoist a wounded soldier of deep in the jungle in 1966" and was apparently from the Larry Burrows collection.
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