HELICOPTER PILOT AND WAR HERO JAMES PHELAN DIES
James Phelan, who was involved in the first helicopter combat rescue, died May 16. Phelan and Carter Harman flew their Sikorsky YR-4 behind Japanese lines in the China-Burma jungle to rescue American pilot Ed (Murphy) Hladovcak and three British soldiers in April 1944. Phelan also was the husband of...
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