Lt. Bob Carlton was a Naval Flight Officer who flew from eight different aircraft carriers during the Vietnam war. By the time Bob returned home ...
Author’s note: The Navy AD aircraft [nicknamed “The Spad”] was a Korean War era, single-seat, attack aircraft, that was widely used in Vietnam. Douglas Aircraft ...
[Continuation of Major Thomas Floyd from Part 1, WW will be used to designate Wild Weasel]. On September 25, 1972, Captain Tom Floyd and his ...
On the morning of December 20, 1972, Brigadier General Robert Titus, Commander of the 15th Tactical Air Wing at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, sat quietly reading ...
Andalusia and Covington County lost another member of The Greatest Generation with the passing of O. J. Blount on February 1, 2023. The author was ...
By the time Warrant Officer Mark A. King was medically-evacuated from Vietnam on February 9, 1965, he had completed more than 725 combat missions with ...
Warrant Officer King did his best to hide behind the dyke at the edge of the rice paddy. He and Skip Bundy had just guided ...
Soon after contracting typhus fever in September 1944, Captain Gary Cumbie had been flown from a medical facility in Burma to the large, 20th General Hospital ...
It was not long after completing medical school and internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, that Dr. Gary Cumbie joined the U.S. Army Medical ...
SGT Donald Mock was home for a brief visit with his parents in Andalusia, Alabama, prior to deploying overseas in the war against Japan. He ...
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