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A LION IN WINTER =
Sgt.Major BASIL L. PLUMLEY =
NORMANDY-1944 / Jumped into Nazi-Occupied France the night before the Beach Invasion
PORK CHOP HILL-1953 / Fought at the last Major Battle of the Korean War
IA DRANG Valley-1965 / Fought at the first Major Battle of the Vietnam War
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Sgt.Major BASIL L. PLUMLEY at Pleiku Airstrip after the IA DRANG Valley's Battle at Landing Zone X-Ray.
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set3.htm
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Actor SAM ELLIOTT, who portrayed Sgt.Major PLUMLEY in "WE WERE SOLDIERS" - The 2002 RANDALL WALLACE Motion Picture starring MEL GIBSON about our IA DRANG Valley-1965 Battle.
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
(as we do every year!)
I'll see your Basil Plumely and raise you a Jake McNeice, my mild-mannered postman
who kept his past quiet until his name appeared in the references of a Cornelius Ryan book!
But Plumely's jumps in different wars...that's awesome.
I'm pretty sure all of Jake's four jumps were in WWII Europe.
McNeice's story finally got some justice in the book linked below:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1932033122/qid=1086557125/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-6073268-5971038?v=glance&s=books