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...known, Dodson is the world's only photo-recon pilot to put an enemy truck out of action...
From the opposite direction came a North Vietnamese truck. The driver obviously did not know that Dodson shot only film. Recalls Dodson: "As we raced toward each other, I could see the front end of the truck beginning to skid and zigzag as the driver tried to halt...
...LIEUT. JOHN G. DODSON, 25, from El Paso, Texas, is an RF8 Marine photo-reconnaissance pilot on the carrier Coral Sea. His maintenance crew proudly records each of his missions by painting a small camera on the side of his jet. As of last week there were twelve cameras in a row - and a little yellow truck...
...Dodson's plane is unarmed. How, then, did he manage to chalk a Communist truck up to his credit? One day recently, while photographing the results of a bomb strike near Vinh, Dodson was flat-hatting along Highway 1, only 100 ft. off the deck, at 500 m.p.h...
...that statement, Ayres certainly spoke for the vast majority of American fighting men in Viet Nam - for Risner and Rogers, for Skunk Hunter Hunt and for Mac the Fac, for Niedringhaus and Necaise, for Dodson and Bradley and McNeil...