More detail on this person: UH-1 crash while
flying for the National Guard in Dallas Ft. Worth
area Grand Pariari while acting as a
co-pilot.While with the Texas ARNG A/C crashed at
night near Oak Grove airport S of Ft. Worth while
enroute to 300 Aviation Squadron base.
I found as much information as I could for now. It
seems that I was incorrect on some of the
information I gave you. Larry flew relief aid to
victims of a tsunami in East Pakistan in late 1970
for U.S. Task Force 182 in one of eight UH-IH Huey
helicopters. He was in Viet Nam (I'm assuming due
to the lack of a year notation on his letters to
my dad and mom) probably during 1971-1972. In
one of his letters he mentioned a Col. Hackworth
as a man that was quitting the army over disgust
in how the U. S. was handling the war. He said
that Hackworth said, "We had this huge force that
was heavy in logisticians and bloody thin on
fighters." Most of the things Hackworth said in
the letter were from the July 5th issue of
Newsweek. I tried to find that issue of Newsweek
over the weekend, but couldn't do that from
home.
He also wrote my mother that if she could find the
December 27th issue of Newsweek, she'd be able
to find a full page story on his company there.
But, again, he did not give a year on his letter.
He said the article was good, with the exception
of one comment made in the article. It said that
the pilots were fighting for the chance to go on
missions. Larry said that they weren't fighting
for the chance - the missions were so plentiful
nobody fought for more. On one envelope of a
letter he sent my dad he wrote a return address
of:
WO-1 L. A. Powell, 117th AVN CO, APO San
Francisco, Calif 96266
From: Steven W. Powell
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