RC VIETNAM HELICOPTER RESCUE

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The audio for this video was taken from two different real Vietnam helicopter rescues, and one helicopter gunship cockpit recording. Although the video is a bit of fun, it has a serious point. The Jolly Green Giant helicopter crews with the help of Skyraider ground attack plane's (Sandy's) did this for real, and took heavy losses trying to save the lives of downed pilot's. The Jolly's motto was 'THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE'. Throughout the Vietnam War they flew low and slow into enemy fire, saving hundreds of lives and sacrificing their own, so that others may live. This video was inspired by 3 books, that gave 3 different perspectives of one of the most famous and largest rescue missions of the Vietnam war: The rescue of Streetcar 304. In 1968 Lt. Kenny Fields (Streetcar 304) was a Navy A-7 Corsair pilot that got shot down over Laos on his first mission. The area was home to an entire North Vietnamese Division and Phatet Lao guerillas. Fields used his escape and evasion skills, and narrowly missed being captured and killed several times, including by his own side, for 40 hours on the run in the jungle. Everytime a rescue was attempted, they would get shot up and the rescue was called off. Before it was over, the US Air Force had flown 189 sorties to rescue Fields and in the process, four pilots had ejected, one helicopter and seven planes were lost or heavily damaged, and one pilot became a POW for five years. All to rescue one man! This video is dedicated to Dave Richardson ...