[N. Theknow]

Lt. Col. Bruce Crandall, who received the Medal of Honor for flying 70 wounded troops out of Vietnam’s Ia Drang Valley in 1965.

Salute to "Snake" Crandall.

[cpdiii]

Lt. Col. Bruce Crandall, who received the Medal of Honor for flying 70 wounded troops out of Vietnam’s Ia Drang Valley in 1965.

I had the honor of meeting and talking with Col. Crandall. I asked him what made him do what he did. His answer was, "I brought those boys in and I had to bring them out."

[Tatze]

Lt. Col. Bruce Crandall: “My men call me Snakesh!t, sir.”

Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: “Why do they call you that?”

Lt. Col. Bruce Crandall: “Because I fly ‘lower than snakesh!t,’ sir.”