The Catkillers of the US Army's 220th Reconnaissance Airplane Company patrolled northern I Corps and the DMZ. Their area of operations extended from the South China Sea to Laos, into North Vietnam and down to the A Shau Valley. In 1968-69 it was the most violently-contested real estate on earth. They flew what were arguably the longest sustained combat missions of any aviation unit during the Vietnam War. Their unarmed and unarmored, single-engine...
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