Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Costly Battle. Next day 20 helicopters with U.S. pilots were kept busy jungle-hopping troops of the South Vietnamese 7th Division to build up an assault on the Viet Cong stronghold near Due Hoa. One helicopter crash-landed on a muddy pineapple field and was battered by Communist mortar and rifle fire, killing two Vietnamese soldiers and injuring three Americans, who set the helicopter afire to keep it out of Viet Cong hands. Said one hard-worked U.S. pilot: "It sounded like World War II out there." Even Saigon was not safe: on Christmas Day, a 26-year...
...returned to the powder-blue crew quarters of Cape Canaveral's Hangar "S." There, one floor below in glassed-off splendor, glistened the Mercury capsule that at midmonth is scheduled to carry the lean Marine lieutenant colonel on three orbits of the earth. As the sobersided ex-test pilot buckled down to his monastic, preflight regimen, his wife and kids decided to wait it out in Virginia. Said Anna Glenn: "We've had a wonderful Christmas - our very best. There's an awful lot to look forward to, you know...
FATE IS THE HUNTER, by Ernest K. Gann. Author Gann was an airline and Air Trans port Command pilot before he became a bestselling storyteller (The High and the Mighty], and he writes convincingly in this excellent memoir of why he quit flying-his growing belief, supported by all too much chilling evidence, that he had pressed his luck too far. Not recommended for above-sea-level reading...
...helicopters, carrying a maximum of 21 soldiers and able to stay aloft three hours without refueling, should be invaluable in the jungle fighting against the Communist guerrillas, putting down South Vietnamese reinforcements at precisely the spot they are needed. As he stepped ashore in Saigon last week, one U.S. pilot said: "We have mixed emotions about being here, but our job is to fly the bananas and that's what...
...Project MORE through the high schools, got hundreds of students to sign up for skull sessions on doctoring as a profession. From the most interested and promising, the doctors chose the 57 who went through last week's preceptorship program. From the Binghamton experience, and a similar pilot operation in Omaha, the A.A.G.P. will draw final plans for a nationwide Project MORE next year through all its 50 state chapters...