Passing of another hero......

[skyhawka4m]

Col. Bud Day has passed away........RIP sir....:salute:


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/us/col-bud-day-vietnam-war-hero-dies-at-88.html?_r=1&

[roger-wilco-66]

Ohh that's sad.
I just read about him in "Bury us upside down", a documentary of F-100 pilots known as Misty fast FAC.

RIP, Sir!

Mark

[rdaniell]

Another excellent book: "American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day" by Robert Coram. Little Brown & Co., 2007.

RD

[skyhawka4m]

In Memoriam: Retired Col. George E. “Bud” Day, the most decorated Airman in US Air Force history, passed away in Shalimar, Florida, on 27 July 2013. He was eighty-eight. Day, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry as a Prisoner of War in North Vietnam, received close to seventy medals—fifty of them combat-related—during a career that spanned from World War II to 1976. Day log...ged more than 8,000 flying hours in a dozen fighter types, including several legacy Lockheed Martin aircraft. But when asked at a 2006 POW reunion what his favorite aircraft were, he named a bomber and a transport. He said: “The B-52 because it forced the North Vietnamese to the negotiating table and the C-141 because it brought me home.” This was Day getting on the Hanoi Taxi at the aircraft's retirement in 2006.