Rich Burns

Rich Burns


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THE DRUID CONSULTING/SWAMP FOX WEB SITE IS UNDER RECONSTRUCTION


 

 

Me and Dan Aldridge (Maint. Officer) in front of Maint.shack Sorry expanded pic is fouled up(HCIG)

My crew chief, Ron Estes, to whom I owe so much, God bless him where ever he is.

Me and my Bird Dog

Me and My Bird Dog

Me in Norm Wood's plane (I believe)

Remians of Rich Burnes Bird Dog.

 

I don't have a picture of the original crash site, but of the picture of the aircraft after it was brought back to Vinh Long (I assume, since I was in the hospital). It is sitting next to a Huey Boom and you have to look carefully to see the remains of a Birddog. I crashed north of Dom Tam. I know I had expended all my rockets, and I don't remember being near any buildings, but ..then again ??  I believe this picture was taken by Capt Bob Metzger, my platoon leader, or Norm Wood, and sent to me after I got back to the states. I think I was pretty lucky to come through that with my Vietnamese Observer, although I lost contact with him after a couple of letters. He described the crash and how we were shot at after we were down. Although wounded himself, I feel he save me and him from being killed or captured until we were rescued. I was out of it, which is good, because I think I would have died of fright.
 
Rich