Then he never got treated on the Forrestal and since 24 hours later he was in a bar in Saigon and stayed at the home of a NYT reporter for a week, never mentioned being injured or treated in Saigon.
The NYT article written by his new friend does not report an injury. His fathers letter indicated he was unscratched.
Any book that uses McCains version as a source - is at best embellished. You can tell which ones they are because they say McCains plane was hit by the rocket and the true victim LCDR Fred White is airbrushed out. Never mentioned
Fair enough. Well agree to disagree.