Originally Posted by
gums
Salute!
Some urban legend there, Tart, but a C-5 did go down with many kids. Pressure and rear door problem required emergency landing and they did not make it due eventual loss of control. Amazing the low loss of life, as there were many folks onboard.
Worst one we had was Herc at Kham Duc, and legend is there were over 2 hundred on that one. Was in 68 Tet and look up the story of that camp, now declassified. Would make a great movie, and a cargo pilot got the MoH for his mission to get the last folks out. Joe Jackson, if memory serves. I was about a hundred miles south at Pleiku that day but was flying CAS missions further north near Hue best I recall, but we had missions all over II Corps and I corps that Feb.
Gums sends...
Good Afternoon Gums:
First of all thank you for your service and as another poster said please write a book or share some vignettes of your service time as it will make excellent reading!
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