A Museum About a Great Aircraft and A Book About Someone Who Really Knew How To Fly It

Bullet Came In The Front and Went Out The Side

There is no Foolishness in this Blog Posting...

The book was written by a Dustoff Pilot (Medical Evacuation Pilot) who flew with the 57^th Medical Detachment in Vietnam and who is regarded by us as one of our Legends. His name is Colonel Douglas E. Moore.

I recommend the book to you as a good read about the military unit I happened to be part of which established an astounding history of life saving in Vietnam starting in 1962.

The book does not cost that much and a part of the proceeds from the book goes towards a museum that is still under construction which will be dedicated to the UH-1 Helicopter (The Huey) that we flew in Vietnam.

 

The Museum Link Is:

https://museumspedia.com/en/i/15174-american-huey-museum/

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This is a copy of an email I received from Colonel Moore...

Douglas Moore 

From: xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.net

To: AlexO

Tue, Jan 2 at 6:52 AM

Did I ever tell you guys that I wrote a book? Years ago, Phil Marshall called to say he had read a couple of articles I wrote for Army magazines and wanted to ask a favor. He told me about the Huey 369 project at Peru, Indiana where he and others were planning a Huey museum and had acquired their first aircraft, a former Dust Off bird. Following a VHPA reunion in Indianapolis, my wife and I stopped by and Phil gave us a ride in that a/c and then talked us out of a couple thousand dollars to go into their building fund. Later he asked me and others to put together a book that could be sold at their museum project. I complied with the understanding that all my proceeds from the book would go into the building fund. The title is A Bullet Through The Helmet and is available from Amazon. Four dollars from each sale goes to the museum. If you haven’t read it, you might recognize some of the characters and places and you could help the museum scheduled to open this summer.

Doug

The Book Link Is: https://www.amazon.com/Bullet-Through-Helmet-Vietnam-Dustoff/dp/1726311724

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In writing my Blog Foolishess...Or Is It? I have been known to exaggerate, some say I lie but this time I did not lie when I said, “There is no Foolishness in this Blog Posting...”

Not being Foolish is not easy for me and I promise not to do it again.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella