Archive for October, 2010

Yesterday, I blogged about Kenny Wayne Fields’ book, Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot’s Forty Hours on the Run in Laos (Ausa).  One of Fields’ squadron mates in VA-82 was a local (Kendallville, Indiana) named Scotty Greiling.  Interestingly, Greiling mentioned Fields’ odyssey in a 4 June 1968 letter home from the carrier, USS America. [...]

Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot’s Forty Hours on the Run in Laos (Ausa) by Kenny Wayne Fields (Naval Institute Press) tells the story of the author’s harrowing three-day odyssey during the Vietnam War.  In late May 1968, Fields, a member of attack squadron VA-82, launched his A-7 Corsair from the carrier, USS America.  [...]

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