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Robert D. Carlton, Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, Naval Flight Officer, Vietnam Flying in the Fat Spad – Part 2

Lt. Bob Carlton was a Naval Flight Officer who flew from eight different aircraft carriers during the Vietnam ...

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Author’s note: The Navy AD aircraft [nicknamed “The Spad”] was a Korean War era, single-seat, attack aircraft, that ...

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Thomas W. “Tom” Floyd, Major, U.S. Air Force Pilot, Vietnam The Wild Weasels – Part 2

[Continuation of Major Thomas Floyd from Part 1, WW will be used to designate Wild Weasel]. On September ...

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Thomas W. “Tom” Floyd, Major, U.S. Air Force Pilot, Vietnam The Wild Weasels – Part 1

On the morning of December 20, 1972, Brigadier General Robert Titus, Commander of the 15th Tactical Air Wing at ...

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O. J. Blount, Master Sergeant, U.S. Army, WWII

Andalusia and Covington County lost another member of The Greatest Generation with the passing of O. J. Blount ...

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Mark A. King, WO1, U.S. Army, Helicopter Pilot, Vietnam War Part 2

By the time Warrant Officer Mark A. King was medically-evacuated from Vietnam on February 9, 1965, he had ...

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Mark A. King, WO1, U.S. Army, Helicopter Pilot, Vietnam War Part 1

Warrant Officer King did his best to hide behind the dyke at the edge of the rice paddy. ...

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William Gary Cumbie, M.D., Captain, U.S. Army Medical Corps, WWII Merrill’s Marauders – Part 2

Soon after contracting typhus fever in September 1944, Captain Gary Cumbie had been flown from a medical facility ...

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William Gary Cumbie, M.D., Captain, U.S. Army Medical Corps, WWII Merrill’s Marauders – Part 1

It was not long after completing medical school and internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, that Dr. ...

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James Donald Mock, Tech Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Corps, WWII

SGT Donald Mock was home for a brief visit with his parents in Andalusia, Alabama, prior to deploying ...

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