"RED" LEAD
Jimmie S. Ford, COL (Ret)

2nd Platoon Leader, 170th Assault Helicopter Company,
52nd Combat Aviation Battalion,
located at Camp Holloway, Pleiku, RVN, 28 April 1967-11 Sep 1967.
Captain Ford also served as the
170th Operations Officer, 11 Sep-17 to Dec 1967, and
170th Executive Officer, 17 Dec-17 to Mar 1968.
Captain Ford returned to RVN in Nov 1970,
as a Major and he commanded an
Air Cav Troop (Troop "B", 3rd Sqdn, 17th Air Cav).
He retired as a LTC in August 1981, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
E-mail: jsford@juno.com

Front Row, L to R: 1) Gerald D. Gardner; 2) Earl W. Wilson; 3) Bronski?; 4) Paul R. Wilson; 5) Nicholas Buffa;
and 6) Jonathan. D. Palmeer. Back Row, L to R: 7) "Chief" S.K. Beaty; 8) Marion N. Ray; 9) Dan A. Hawkins;
10) Lawrence H."Larry" McQuay; 11) John T."Junior" Litchfield; and 12) Dean H."Mac" MacIsaac.

Tom Roy--You gotta call 'em like you see 'em!
Tom Roy Photo Album
At Ft. Rucker, we called it an "Eagle Flight."
Some referred to it as "30,000 aircraft parts flying in loose formation!"

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