PART THREE
Below are all the photos from Part Three of Deadliest Day
0.4 Cover of Roger Lockshier's Book, Above the Call of Duty
14.1: Cpt. Jerry R. Fry (Black Angel 6)
14.2: Sp/4 Charles D. Bartlett (Black Angel Crew Chief)
14.3: W-1 Tom Wood (Black Angel 22), L
W-1 Jim Wittman (Black Angel 15), R
14.5: Combat Damaged Medevac (Dust-Off) Aircraft (498th Medical Company)Photo from the cover of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA) Aviator Magazine, Issue 37-06, November/December 2018. L-R: Aircraft Commander: Warrant Officer (W.O.) Jim Siverd (Dust-off 30); Pilot: W.O. Gene Manning (Dust-off 31); Medic: Specialist Jerry Pask; Crew Chief: unknown
14.4: Sp/4 Charles R. Copeland
14.6: Vietnam 1967: 1/Lt. Fry (Lancer 3) stands next to his UH-1C Gunship. This picture shows the size of the UH-1C cargo compartment, a mini-gun and the rocket pods. The box in the doorway holds the door gunner ammunition. After the takeoff with the first load of wounded, there were eight people in the cargo compartment for a time: the crew chief, gunner, five wounded, and the co-pilot.
14.7: Sp/4 Charles D. Bartlett
17.1: Black Angels Insignia, designed by Black Angel Crew Chief Sp/5 Clifford Gaston. Later, helicopter pilot Chief W.O. Clifford Gaston.
14.8: Eight-Klick Ville, Vietnam, March 1969, Command Group, A/1/501 Airborne Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile).
Cpt. Fry is second from the left standing.
17.2: Colonel Jerry R. Fry, 1988
U.S. Army Photo