Tom Sizemore
thomsize@charter.net
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Troy IL 62294 USA
I thank you for your service to our country. You are a hero and I will always remember your sacrifice. I still wear a red bracelet with your rank, name, branch of service date of death, place of death and home state.
Tom Sizemore
MSgt USAF (Ret)
Jun 15, 2007 |
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Jennifer Burns
sky_lava@yahoo.com
PROUD AMERICAN
Though you are gone you will never be forgotten! You and men like you, are the reason we are free today! I just wanted to say THANK YOU for the sacrifices that you made! I hold you and those like you in the highest regard and you deserve nothing less! I love you all, you were and always will be HEROES to me! I promise never to take for granted the freedoms I have, which you paid the ultimate price for! Happy Birthday! Let no man be forgotten…I WILL REMEMBER YOU!!! Gratefully yours,Jenn
May 5, 2007 |
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Bill Gallenstein
USAF Veteran
Zephyrhills FL 33541 USA
A very proud cold war USAF veteran remembers you on this day. My God bless you and your family always. I salute you, Thank you
Mar 29, 2007 |
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allen green
maedal@mc-online.net
aquaintance/friend
214 shady oak dr.
biscoe, nc 27209 usa
he was a dedicated para-medic
I was member of the 37ARRS at DaNang AFB South Viet Nam and I was helicopter mechanic/crew chief. MSG Sutton was a para-medic and crew member of one of the rescue helicopters. He was on a mission trying to save the life of another airman when the helicopter he was on was downed. The story that was told to us is that the helicopter was downed by a heat seeking missle fired from a North Viet Namese MIG fighter aircraft, while the helicopter's crew was attempting to rescue a downed pilot just north of the DMZ. I was at DaNang that day the report came in, but if memory serves me(sometimes it does not)MSG Sutton was flying out of Quang Tri that day. We usually had one or two helicopters that would go up to Quang Tri daily and we would sent one or two to a base south of us in order to cover more area quickly. I was not real close to MSG Sutton because we were in different sections, but he seemed a nice enough man when I would see him on the flight line before a mission. He gave his all as did the other crew members that day," that others may live."
Wednesday, May 21, 2003 |
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Brother Viet Nam Vet
MSGT Sutton's Jolly Green helicopter was in a holding area waiting to go rescue two downed WW pilots. Two MiG-21s, reportedly from the NVAF's 921st Flight Regiment, made a single pass at the holding area and were able to hit one of the HH-53s (serial # 66-14434, call sign JOLLY GREEN 71) with an air-to-air missile (the NVAF pilot reportedly was Vu Ngoc Dinh, a North Vietnamese ace with 6 kills). JOLLY GREEN 71 exploded and disintegrated in flight, involving its six crewmen in an apparently unsurvivable crash.
Monday, October 03, 2005 |
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