I certainly remember the day I got shot
down the 6th of June 1964 the ocean
government had requested a show of
support from the United States we were
tasked to go in and fly some missions
over there as a kind of a show of force
the last pass the last mission there was
a big funk airplane Township everything
started to fail all the red lights
started to come
I forget how high I was when I ejected
but looking around at where I was gonna
land one tree in the middle of the
clearing and I hit it my right hip right
knee were badly banged up
I had dispatched a number of the air
America pilots under missions they’re
dropping ammunition in rice noir outpost
and one of the pilots came into there’s
a plane down we all knew that we would
be crossing the most dangerous area that
you could cross there’s not much of a
chance on our
little single-engine aircraft make it
over to kept him and then coming back as
soon as they started to break into a
hover everything interrupted I knew
there was no chance of them being able
to land and pick me up so I didn’t wave
them off there’s a very courageous man
there on the ground what a brave act
your gorilla so to speak that were under
communist control were alarm and started
to lead me off toward their camp when
you’re kept in the prison you were
locked in a room
it was always I’m gonna get out of this
when I get away from here somehow
someday nothing’s going to happen unless
I make it happen it was going through
that drill when I had the first
encounter with another prisoner his name
was boo and me came over and sat down
beside me through sign language he said
walking so pointing and eventually it
was just when the right time comes
that’s when we’ll go
I went out and started pushing up the
fence and he came running down and I was
right behind him I knew we were going
away from the bad guys that one that was
the key point but I didn’t know for sure
when me was headed he hadn’t given up
hope and look the first opportunity to
escape but thanks to his bravery and the
things that he did we were able to
complete the mission I don’t think you
can go through a life-and-death type of
the experience and come out the same way
it went in you realize that life’s
pretty fragile so I think they have a
more positive outlook on life afterwards
down the 6th of June 1964 the ocean
government had requested a show of
support from the United States we were
tasked to go in and fly some missions
over there as a kind of a show of force
the last pass the last mission there was
a big funk airplane Township everything
started to fail all the red lights
started to come
I forget how high I was when I ejected
but looking around at where I was gonna
land one tree in the middle of the
clearing and I hit it my right hip right
knee were badly banged up
I had dispatched a number of the air
America pilots under missions they’re
dropping ammunition in rice noir outpost
and one of the pilots came into there’s
a plane down we all knew that we would
be crossing the most dangerous area that
you could cross there’s not much of a
chance on our
little single-engine aircraft make it
over to kept him and then coming back as
soon as they started to break into a
hover everything interrupted I knew
there was no chance of them being able
to land and pick me up so I didn’t wave
them off there’s a very courageous man
there on the ground what a brave act
your gorilla so to speak that were under
communist control were alarm and started
to lead me off toward their camp when
you’re kept in the prison you were
locked in a room
it was always I’m gonna get out of this
when I get away from here somehow
someday nothing’s going to happen unless
I make it happen it was going through
that drill when I had the first
encounter with another prisoner his name
was boo and me came over and sat down
beside me through sign language he said
walking so pointing and eventually it
was just when the right time comes
that’s when we’ll go
I went out and started pushing up the
fence and he came running down and I was
right behind him I knew we were going
away from the bad guys that one that was
the key point but I didn’t know for sure
when me was headed he hadn’t given up
hope and look the first opportunity to
escape but thanks to his bravery and the
things that he did we were able to
complete the mission I don’t think you
can go through a life-and-death type of
the experience and come out the same way
it went in you realize that life’s
pretty fragile so I think they have a
more positive outlook on life afterwards
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