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Risking it all for an enemy officer

Pictured from L to R: SP5 Tom Franks, flight medic; SP5 Dave Farnum, crew chief; unidentified Marine reporter bodyguard; Gunter Stiller, Chief Reporter for Bild am Sonntag newspaper; Captain Robert Robeson, aircraft commander; and CW2 Tim Yost, now deceased copilot, at Red Beach heliport after flight to evacuate captured and seriously wounded NVA officer. Photo by Gunter Stiller

It was Sunday, March 7, 1970, at our 236th Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance) headquarters at Red Beach in Da Nang, South Vietnam where my flight crew of four was on 24-hour standby duty. I’d r…