More detail on this person: Captain Holp was a
"Falcon" with the 335th AHC in 1971 also. I was a
crew chief on my second separate tour with the
335th when I served as a crew member of his. The
most significant memory of him I have is of a
mission where we had some down time at a lesser
used, but once more important staging airfield
called Tra Vinh in the Mekong Delta. We (the crew,
both pilots and EM) got into the only discussion I
recall as to why we thought we were here in
Vietnam. No pilot had ever opened this type of
discussion to me prior to this. This information was last updated 05/18/2016
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I remember that the other pilot was Captain John
Zylka and have no memory who my gunner was. It
was my second tour with the 335th and we were
extremely RLO heavy in the Falcon gun platoon,
with seemingly far more RLO's than WO's or
CWO's.
I actually have pictures of the very day of my
memory. It was probably the only time that we had
been back to this airfield during my second tour
and it was not in conjunction with a combat
assault operation with slicks and guns. We were
escorting and protecting a Chinook that was
relocating an obscure isolated outpost from an
area that got too hot to manage or control.
From: Frank Root