Preserving The Oral HistorIES of Combat Veterans
2:53 | Don Ware recalls training at Ajo Range, specifically, his first practice bombing mission.
Keywords : Ajo Range F100
Don Ware explains the details of flight missions operated in the Red River Valley during the Vietnam War. He then recalls a flight in which he led four F-105s on a mission to blow up a bridge on the Red River, and had to engage in several improvisational efforts to complete the mission and get home.
Don Ware recounts a mission in which his flight leader, Dave Hatcher, was shot down by enemy fire.
