| Yea We had flown that area before but as bright light missions if you know what those are Anyway we tried to tell them wasn’t going to work but they were hell bent to pull it off It was a debacle to say the least The South Vietnamese army ran when confronted and many army pilots paid the ultimate price in that operation If you got shot down it was rare that you got picked up It was the only operation I knew of that BNR ( bodies not recovered) was the norm when the bird went down I was lucky yo get out with just a small wound my third no less. And dig this I had less than 60 days to go when this thing kicked off! Anyway I made it My self and a guy named Bob Pascoe were in on a rescue of a 25 TFS/ 8 TFW F4 that was shot down just outside of tchepone on 16 feb we suppressed fire until the Jolly’s arrived We saw the guys eject and marked there chutes, while King did his thing Remember it like yesterday They both got picked up
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Clyde, when Lam Son 719 went down, I was holding down the
Fighter Desk at 13th AF in the PI. We saw what you guys were going to do
and we couldn't believe that you guys in slow movers we going into some of those
really hot areas in Northern Laos, particularly Tschepone were I saw a lot of
F-4s get shot down. We tried to raise the alarm, but, it fell on deaf
ears. The Army Generals were going in there come hell or high water.
My hat is off to you for going in there! That was one hell of a dangerous
mission!
50 years ago this month we were up to our asses in Laos
Lam Son719
Lost several good guys in that campaign
This was the ONLY TIME I was scared !
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On Mar 6, 2021, at 12:17 PM, Dominic Carri
<zigzagzoot [at] comcast.net> wrote:
Clyde?
9
on the jungle floor sounds nutz. All controlled crashes as u seem fit and
healthy
Behind enemy lines(!?) or on way back
to base?
I had a marine buddy who was blown
out of a copter and somersaulted to the ground. Dazed a bit (ha) and hearing
quite impaired a medic ran up and told him to “hold your balls”. Not sure of
what was going on suddenly one dislocated pelvis gets 'yanked’ back in place.
Guys leans down and says
“hold your balls” and he knows what’s
coming. With 2 operating legs moments later he got up and ran for his life.
Didn’t talk about ‘Nam much tho the first hand stories make me wonder if it
were me could I have survived the shit he did. A couple knife fights and
stabbings led to recuperation in New Orleans and that leads to other
stories.
Semper Fi my
friend
And Thank You Clyde for your service
while I was
student.
Zooty
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