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re: Found My Dad in a Vietnam Photo That Was Published Nationally in the 60's
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:43 pm to AUstar
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:43 pm to AUstar
Very nice.
My Father had a police and airband VHF radio in his car. Riding down Hwy 90 just outside Morgan City one day he went tense and quiet.
Ended up turning around and went to PHI (I think). He heard a call sign on the airband he recognized. Asked for the pilot and we met him in the hangar.
Turns out it was a helo pilot that refused to leave him during an airevac after he had been wounded and slid out of the helo and was stuck in the mud up to his armpits.
Said it took them 2 hrs to dig him out. When my dad told him his call sign and where this happened the both instantly remembered and recognized each other.
It is indeed a small world.
My Father had a police and airband VHF radio in his car. Riding down Hwy 90 just outside Morgan City one day he went tense and quiet.
Ended up turning around and went to PHI (I think). He heard a call sign on the airband he recognized. Asked for the pilot and we met him in the hangar.
Turns out it was a helo pilot that refused to leave him during an airevac after he had been wounded and slid out of the helo and was stuck in the mud up to his armpits.
Said it took them 2 hrs to dig him out. When my dad told him his call sign and where this happened the both instantly remembered and recognized each other.
It is indeed a small world.
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Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:50 pm to I20goon
I could listen to stories like this and the OP's all day long.
Grew up outside Benning when all this was going on. Can't tell you how many kids in the neighborhood saw their Pops leave to go to war and didn't make it back home.
Lucky my Pop did. Was in the 7th/17th Air Cav. The stories he shared when I would ask him would make the hair on your neck stand up.
All of them that went through that hell were badasses n my book.
Grew up outside Benning when all this was going on. Can't tell you how many kids in the neighborhood saw their Pops leave to go to war and didn't make it back home.
Lucky my Pop did. Was in the 7th/17th Air Cav. The stories he shared when I would ask him would make the hair on your neck stand up.
All of them that went through that hell were badasses n my book.
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