The Air Force had small spotter planes looking for the enemy and interdicting the supply chain on the
Ho Chi Minh Trail. These guys had brass balls the size of baseballs.
http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-ravens-and-the-secret-air-war-in-laos/5/
One of these guys was shot down on January 31st, 1972.
I managed to find him and rescue him with a high-hover hoist rescue with my H-34.
see "The Rescue of Raven 1-1" on you tube: link:
http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi1828127257
For this rescue I received no medals, no rewards except knowing I had helped a fellow aviator out of a tight.
34 years later, he bought me a bottle of Scotch.
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