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Someone has gone to a lot of effort to make this site, and it is appreciated...But there is misinformation stated as fact. Probably doesn't matter now.

I was on this mission, no South Vietnamese CIDG's were inserted, 75 Nung Mercs's were inserted, they died to a man on that LZ! Jim Hargrove was a good man, who had been a Naval Aviator, Korea I think. He wanted to serve his country so he resigned his commission and went through Army Flight School, Ray Nutter was the AC on that aircraft. The aircraft crashed in the U Minh forest! Nutter and his crew E and E'd all night, and were rescued the next morning.



18 OCT 66


CW2 James W. Hargrove [CP]
3 crewmembers injured


Vietnam


121 AHC
#63-08549
A/C was inserting a South Vietnamese CIDG force when heavy fire hit the cockpit. A/C crashed inverted in swampy woooded area.