Rescue mission highlights Vietnam Skyraiders and Jolly Green Giants
Nakorn Phanom Air Base reports a daring joint operation where aging Skyraider aircraft escort the HH53 Jolly Green Giant helicopters to rescue downed American pilots over Laos and North Vietnam. Lt. Col. Jim Harding describes low level smoke screens, cluster bomblets, and precise helicopter insertions amid heavy ground fire.
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Thailand
Mekong
Wnorth
Laon
North Vietnam
Jim Harding
Brookville
Penn State
1St Special Operations Squadron
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Yupp the Mountagnard at a U.S. base in Vietnam
The article profiles Hille Yupp, a Mountagnard living with U.S. advisers in Vietnam's 2nd Division area. He has a steel pot helmet, flak jacket, carbine, and a small, well-kept world, including a Japanese watch and a refrigerator marked War. He claims ten years with GIs, more legend than fact, and admires the Huey helicopters and Cobra gunships nicknamed Snakes.
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Chu Lal
Vietnam
Hille Yupp
Tle
South Vietenanmi
U.S
Yupp
U.S. Air Cavalry
Chu Lai
South Vietnam
AP Wirestiota
Yupp the Montagnard Orphan in Postwar Cambodia
The article profiles Yupp a young Montagnard orphan in Cambodia after U.S. withdrawal. He works at the Americans club movie projector and dreams of becoming a pilot though language barriers and prejudice loom. Soldiers glimpse possible adoption but bureaucratic hurdles persist. Yupp awaits adulthood and potential repatriation.
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Yupp
Americans’ Club
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