Veterans Airlift Command Missions Are On The Rise
Credit: Cessna Aircraft
Walt Fricke returned to the U.S. in 1969 in a bad way. The 19-year-old Army warrant officer's left foot had been severed, save for his Achilles tendon, when one of the rockets on his Huey gunship exploded as he was letting down into a hot LZ in Vietnam. The field doctors wanted to amputate, but he...
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