The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War by Dan Hampton

Author:Dan Hampton [Hampton, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9780062375148
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

* The first Medal of Honor for a Wild Weasel was awarded to Captain Merlyn Hans Dethlefsen for his role in this flight. His EWO, Captain Mike Gilroy, was awarded the Air Force Cross.

* March 10 was also the day President Johnson publicly admitted to basing U.S. aircraft in Thailand—three years after the fact.

* Madison’s flight lead was Major Leo Thorsness, who would become the second, and last, Wild Weasel to date to earn the Medal of Honor. See page 178.

* CIA operating out of Laos.

* The “B” suffix denotes a North Vietnamese unit. Bac—from the North.

* Con Thien roughly translates as the “place of angels.”

* Captain Sterling K. Coates, commanding officer, B Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines.

* A-331 of the 5th Special Forces Group.

* Consider French colonel Charles Piroth, who committed suicide rather than stand by his soldiers. See Appendix C.

* Rob Simmons later went on to the CIA as an operations officer, then became a Connecticut state representative in 1990. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, he served from 2001 to 2007.

* BUFF; Big Ugly Fat Fucker.

* This timing error was confirmed thirty years after the fact by Vietnamese historian Ngo Vinh Long.

* It was attacked in 1962 by two rogue South Vietnamese pilots flying U.S. A-1D Skyraiders. Rebuilt on a grand scale, it was funded with American tax dollars.

* These were military forces of South Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, and Spain that augmented the U.S. military presence in Southeast Asia.

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