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James Phillip Fleming (born March 12, 1943) is a former United States Air Force pilot who served in the Vietnam War.Born in Sedalia, Missouri, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing a six-man MACV-SOG reconnaissance team, stranded between heavily defended enemy positions, near Đức Cơ, Vietnam in 1968.
The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War, Volume 11: Helicopters. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-34506-0. McGowen, Stanley S. (2005). Helicopters: An Illustrated History of Their Impact. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-468-4. Mesko, Jim (1984). Airmobile: The Helicopter War in Vietnam. Carrollton, Texas: Squadron ...
Adams joined the United States Army in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1962.He began his tour in Vietnam on July 6, 1970. On May 25, 1971, Adams, a major, volunteered to fly a lightly armed helicopter mission to rescue three dead US advisors and a wounded crew chief from a previously shot down helicopter crew chief from a besieged firebase in Kontum Province, despite the clear weather which would ...
Oct. 1—A main attraction at an American Legion open house in Frederick on Saturday was a restored helicopter used during the Vietnam War. The Huey 823 completed more than 1,300 combat flight ...
Glenn Urban Andreotta (October 30, 1947 – April 8, 1968) was an American helicopter crew chief in the Vietnam War noted for being one of three who intervened in the Mỹ Lai massacre, in which 504 unarmed children, women and men were murdered.
68-15200 – National Military Heritage Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri. [citation needed] 68-15204 – Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #5077 in O'Fallon, Missouri. [citation needed] 68-17026 – American Legion Post #75 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. [citation needed] 68-17099 – American Legion Post #309 in Kendall, Wisconsin. [citation needed]
During 1966, the OH-1 entered service with the U.S. Army. Its first overseas deployment, as well as into frontline combat, was the Vietnam War. The pilots dubbed the new helicopter Loach, a word created by pronunciation of the LOH (light observation helicopter) acronym of the program that spawned the aircraft. (Loach is also the name for ...
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