At my Basic School reunion, a major topic was our experiences in Vietnam. Several of my classmates persuaded me to write my memoirs of my tour there, because so many interesting things happened.
The memoirs tell the story of me pulling the unrecognizable mangled body of a marine officer out of a ditch after his airplane was shot down. I was later led to believe he was a good friend of mine from Basic School. For 52 years, I thought he was dead until I saw his name on the attendance roster for the reunion last spring. This pic is that officer with his wife taken at the reunion.
John Burwell Wilkes
Colonel of Marines, Retired
Click to read the memoir.
Books by John
John and the Airplane he built.
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