I have the picture that my mother had hanging on the wall of the HH-43B they flew. I had read were the men would rig cables in the back and hang BAR's in them.
I had contacted thru mail the records department back in 04 and they said they did a poor job of it during 64 and early 65. I even got on the computer and there wasn't much info for this time period. I remember him talking about a friend of his, pretty sure it was Pittsinbarger that was KIA in...
I hate that he took it to his grave. I tried to get him to tell me about it and he said he was still trying to forget it. It had been 39 years and would not tell me anything other than he had a job to do, peoples lives depended on him, didn't have time to think about it and seeing and doing...
Air Force Det. 10 out of Maxwell Air Force Base. 38th Aerospace and Rescue Squadron. From what I understand from my mother he couldn't even tell her where he was going. She said he was gone 6 months before she received a letter from him.
My dad Tsgt James R. Wilson
I'm pretty sure they did fly...
I have posted this twice, I had to. When my Dad was in Viet Nam His Rescue Squadron's Moto was (So That Others May Live). I believe that they did things that most people don't know about. He wouldn't speak of any of it. They received the Presidential Unit Citation for what they did. I do know...
Here's another for our Brave Soldiers and SF, when I was a little kid very moving song.
Ballad of the Green Berets. Then we watched The Green Beret's with John Wayne while my big brother was in Viet Nam.
This one is a feel good, gets the blood pumping song from my younger days in the early 80's. Man how time is passing us by. I listen to it and remember how it was back then. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23TakeOnMe1BN
You can shoot without being a member, I have attached a match flyer that shows the weapons allowed. All of the old military bolt guns are pre WW 2. then your M1 Garands, carbines and German autoloading rifles are WW2 to Korea. Then SKS, M1A's SP1's (early M16, no forward assist and triangle hand...