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Kenneth’s Story: 02 Apr 1968. Vietnam. CAS, troops in contact, restricted run in heading, multiple low-level passes over the same target area, moderate small arms fire. The odds shifted in favor of the golden BB, and soon the engine was no longer sucking and blowing. The cockpit indicator lights offered a red dominated multi-colored display […]

Captain James M. “Don Juan” Brinkman, III was killed in action on April 1, 1968. Flying as “Buzzard O”, he was assigned with the 510th TFS out of Bien Hoa. During a close air support mission 40 miles northwest of Saigon, Capt Brinkman was attacking enemy vehicles seven miles north of Dau Tieng and was

Ron’s story: My squadron the 615th of the 401st Tactical Fighter Wing out of England AFB in Louisiana was the first to operate in North Vietnam (NVN) and Laos. We were TDY to the Philippines in June 1964, wh,e Lt. (jg) Everett Alvarez, the USN pilot, was shot down in Laos; thereafter becoming the very