Major Johnnie L Sullivan
This is for anyone who would have an inerest in my following statement:
On January 18, 1964 I was assigned as the door gunner on an armed Huey gunship (UH-1B 62-01880) (escorting numerous "slick" aircraft in an operation south of Saigon near the mouth of the Mekong River. We had a crew of the Pilot, Co Pilot, Crew Chief, and Door gunner. We also had on board an ARVN (Vietnamese Army) observer and BRITISH WING COMMANDER ALLAN H. LEE. He had never flown with us before and I had never observed military personnel from other countries with us on operations before. To my knowledge he was an observer who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The ground fire was intense and our tail rotor was definitely damaged by the enemy fire and we lost it. We crashed into the South China Sea. The Co Pilot and I were rescued. Commander Lee washed onto the shore a while later and was recovered. The pilot, crew chief and the Vietnamese observer were never recovered. Years later a US remains recovery team went to the area and villagers who lived in a village near there said the remains of an American had washed onto the shore and they had in their possession the crew chief's Army ID card. Johnnie L. Sullivan, Ennis, TX