25 September 1968 – Norman Macleod Paulsen was born on October 6, 1945, in Elmsford, NY. His mother said, “Ever since he was a little boy, he dreamed of flying.” He had enlisted in the Air Force and began his tour on August 3, 1968. He had the rank of First Lieutenant. On a mission
“The F-100 was a single-seat, single-engine, macho kind of fighter, but it wasn’t that good because it didn’t have any avionics, everything was done manually. The bombing was done manually, strafing was without computer aid. The 100 had no navigation equipment, not even an INS. You just took off and flew 400 miles that way and dropped your bomb on the target.
The F-100 was extremely fun to fly and being single-engine, single-seat, it was what all fighter pilots want to do.”
