Army Reporter information
for 269 CAB
For date 680309
269 CAB was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
Tay Ninh Province, III Corps, South Vietnam
Location, Tay Ninh
Description: The following is an edited version of an article titled "Helicopter Crew Aids Filipino Crash Victims" dated 9 Mar 1968.
Three seriously injured Filipinos, pinned under an overturned truck in a water-filled ditch, were rescued recently by an Army helicopter crew. The trio was spotted from the air by MAJ Jack O. Johnson, 269th CAB AC, as he approached the Tay Ninh Airfield, 65 miles northwest of Saigon. Landing the aircraft nearby, Johnson found that one of the victims, a man, had been thrown clear of the wreckage, while a second man and a woman were trapped beneath it and in danger of drowning. WO pilot Phillip E. Coates immediately radioed for medical aid, while Johnson and SP4 James E. Hensley, CE, began extricating the trapped couple. PFC Charles Patrick, door gunner, administered first aid to the second man. According to Johnson, it took 20 minutes to free the two in the ditch. Since they were unconscious, Patrick had to hold their heads above water. All three were made as comfortable as possible until a dustoff helicopter arrived to evacuate them to the hospital.
Comments: MAJ Johnson, Jack O.; AC; ;
WO Coates, Phillip E.; pilot; ;
SP4 Hensley, James E.; CE; ;
PFC Patrick, Charles; door gunner; ;
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