Posted on 11/10/2003 7:03:30 AM PST by Billie
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Good morning, Finest FReeper FRiends. A big thank you to our Armed Forces. Don't know how many watched "Saving Jessica Lynch" last night - very chilling, and very real. The men and women in uniform have always risked their lives for our country, and we must never take them for granted.
God bless our wonderful military!
God bless our wonderful military!
Thank yooooou, Meggsy!! I've missed you! : )
Since it's Military Monday here is my usual memorial to my fallen comrades.
The mission on which CW2 Delaney and WO1 Klassen were killed.
At about 0230 10 Nov 1971, a UH-1H (tail number 66-16036) of the 334th Assault Helicopter Company was launched from Phu Loi on a night flare mission over an enemy contact site located about 17 miles southeast of Saigon. The Huey was to work with two AH-1G gunships which had departed Phu Loi about 30 minutes earlier. 036 stopped enroute at an ARVN compound and picked up an American advisor and a Vietnamese officer, then continued to the target area. On arrival, 036 took station at 2,000 feet above ground level (below the two AH-1G's) and 036's pilot began a radio brief with the AH-1G crews. He stopped in midsentence and stated that he had a transmission failure. The UH-1H departed orbit in a descending left turn which continued to ground impact.
All seven men aboard 036 died in the crash:
CW2 James Patrick Delaney, 334th AHC, aircraft commander
WO1 Francis James Klassen, 334th AHC, copilot
SGT Dennis Michael Higgins, 334th AHC, technical observer
SP4 John Michael Clark, 334th AHC, gunner
SP4 Henry Floyd Dellecker, 334th AHC, crew chief
1LT Raymon Horace James, Jr, MACV Advisory Team 98
Xuan, rank and first name unknown, ARVN
SCOUTS OUT!
No donuts???? Guess the *bear* beat me to 'em. : (
Thank you, Colleen! I'm feeling a bit better today, don't know how long it will last though. : )
The *bear* can share these with the rest.
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