Originally Posted By: Argo44




By the way, a few years ago, I was on a plane to Seattle for his marriage and sat next to a huge old guy with a poodle. Thought he was a - you know what - till I saw the Master Blaster wings on his forearm. The subsequent story - daughter in Alaska who owns a couple of lodges on the Iditarod trail - is pretty amazing and can be read here - 504th Parachute Infantry - jumped into Sicily at the age of 15...Inchon and Frozen Chosen in Korea...White-Star in Laos...CSM of 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam...
https://specialforces78.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/1215-Sentinel-News.pdf


That is an amazing story. A whole lot of guys never made the drop into Sicily when the Navy misidentified aircraft carrying our paratroopers and shot a bunch of them down.