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MAP AREA OF RESCUE DOWNED PILOT AND NAVIGATOR
August 25, 2012 · by Don · in · Tags:
Ho Chi Minh trail shot down plane
U.S. Air Force Maj. Wendell Keller and his co-pilot, Lt. Virgil ‘Mike’ Meroney, prowl the night sky above Laos in their F-4D Phantom jet, on the lookout for North Vietnamese forces stealthily making their way along the Ho Chi Minh Trail far below. Muzzle flashes suddenly reveal the location of anti-aircraft guns. Nearly out of [...]
Legend of the, Ho Chi Minh trail
The Legend of the Ho Chi Minh trail, there are few brand names to match that of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the secret, shifting, network of deep jungle tracks that led to the Victory for Vietnam war. Well here I sit in Laos again, I have been putting around the place [...]
Ho Chi Minh trail article
“You’ve got to ride a dirt bike like you’ve stolen it,” as we accelerated through a particularly gnarly section, the wheels weaving between rocks, mud spraying up from the bike in all directions. All around us was deep Southeast Asian jungle, with no form of civilization for miles. If anything happened to us out here [...]