via Ed Leonard January 2006
"Used Yankee extraction system at about 250kts and less than 100 feet."
"After being shot down while flying a rescue
mission over Laos, I managed to
avoid capture for two days. Captured
2nd June 1967. While sitting in a tree, a
Communist soldier
Iying in a hammock, looked up and saw me."
"Returned to US military control 27th March 1973"
Ed Leonard January 2006
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