[JYO] A Navy Pilot's 40 hours on the run in Laos - 12/14 @2PM - Leesburg Balch Library
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- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:40:36 EST
Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot's Forty Hours on the Run in Laos
author, Kenny Wayne Fields - Thomas Balch Library- Leesburg, VA 12/14 @2PM
Fields mixes humor and drama as he recounts teeth-chattering close
encounters with Pathet Lao guerillas, and nearly being killed time and again by
friendly bombs. He describes in riveting detail the radio chatter between
participants, and the stress effects of coping with fear, sleep deprivation,
wild
animals, and relentless AAA. By the time it was over, the U.S. Air Force had
flown 189 sorties to rescue Fields, and in the process four pilots ejected,
seven
planes were lost or heavily damaged, and one pilot became a POW for five
years.
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