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Category: Crash Coe
Category: Crash Coe
My Vietnam Helmet
One of the few mementos I have from Vietnam is the flight helmet I wore the entire year. Now the helmet was supposed to be ... Read More
The Pale Major
Flying for the Special Forces was part of my every day life. Some of the Pilots in my unit, the 187th Assault Helicopter Company, were ... Read More
Fishing the Mekong
Here is a story about Sam Bose. Chief Warrant Officer Sam Bose lived in the tent next to mine. When the 187th Assault Helicopter Company ... Read More
Michelin Rubber Plantation
Michelin rubber plantation, close to Nui Ba Dinh the
Black Virgin Mountain. Tay Ninh, Vietnam 1967. The Blackhawks were the best Assault Helicopter Company in South ... Read More
Black Virgin Mountain. Tay Ninh, Vietnam 1967. The Blackhawks were the best Assault Helicopter Company in South ... Read More
The Parrot’s Beak
I love mornings in Vietnam, cool and still, well except for the 155's shooting H&I. Harassment and Interdiction, turned into Landing Zone prep. Today we ... Read More
Peaches and Pound Cake
As a pilot for the 187 Assault Helicopter Company in Tay Ninh, Viet Nam, my job was to fly the UH-1. With turbine power, and ... Read More
Long Range Recon Patrol
I was flying a UH-1 D for the Blackhawks out of Tay Ninh, Vietnam in 1967. Sleep never comes easy in Vietnam, the artillery shoots ... Read More
Alone and Expendable
The running lights beneath the tail rotors of the last lift platoon arched out across the darkness of the southeastern sky like the handle of ... Read More
Agent Orange
Flight,
As a new Aircraft Commander with the 187th Assault Helicopter Company some of the jobs assigned to me were somewhat less than desirable, in fact ... Read More
As a new Aircraft Commander with the 187th Assault Helicopter Company some of the jobs assigned to me were somewhat less than desirable, in fact ... Read More
Blade Strike
"So Crash, do you remember doing a medevac near Katum where you chopped
down a couple of trees getting in? Asks Frenchie Gibeault sitting in my ... Read More
down a couple of trees getting in? Asks Frenchie Gibeault sitting in my ... Read More
Medevac with Jimmy Ballard
Flight,
Last night, I spent about two hours on the telephone with Jimmy Ballard.
Jimmy and I used to fly quite often together. Jimmy Ballard is one ... Read More
Last night, I spent about two hours on the telephone with Jimmy Ballard.
Jimmy and I used to fly quite often together. Jimmy Ballard is one ... Read More
Rock and Doc
Flight,
Saturday at the fish camp in Hudson.
David Warden and Rock Lungarella and I flew together in Viet Nam quite often. I was introduced to David ... Read More
Saturday at the fish camp in Hudson.
David Warden and Rock Lungarella and I flew together in Viet Nam quite often. I was introduced to David ... Read More
Graves Registration
Flight,
The last few weeks have been quite trying around the fish camp. Remodeling, broken computer, shitty weather, and a lack of fishing just to name ... Read More
The last few weeks have been quite trying around the fish camp. Remodeling, broken computer, shitty weather, and a lack of fishing just to name ... Read More