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Assessing the damage an RPG did to YK-5. This
may have been a Boeing Tech. Rep. taking notes. It took a long time
to repair this damage. Read that incident by
clicking
here.
Photo by, Cpl.
Dennis Welsh
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Examining the RPG damage from
left, Lt. Paul Pearman, Unknown, and
Lt. Zeb Rush.
If you can ID the other please advise. Photo by, Cpl.
Dennis Welsh
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Cpl. Raymond A. Rodrigues was
the right gunner of YK-5 when the bird was hit by a rocket propelled grenade.
Cpl. Rodrigues now lives in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Read that Incident
by clicking here.
Photo by, LCpl.
Jesus O. "Chuy" Elorreaga
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LCpl. Steve Lovelady was wounded in the above RPG
incident and was air evacuated back to the United States. A comment
in the squadron's command chronology indicates that it was probably Lovelady's
"bullet bouncer" that saved his life.
Photo by, Cpl.
Dennis Welsh
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YK-5 near the Arizona Territory before the RPG found
its target.
Photo by, Cpl.
Dennis Welsh
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