Paul Oelkrug, Coordinator for Special Collections at the University of Texas at Dallas, gestures while talking about the CIA's Air America records at the McDermott Library on the UT-Dallas campus, Thursday, April 9, 2009, in Richardson, Texas. Oelkrug says the documents speak to 'the covert side of the cold war.' (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)From Yahoo News/AP:
DALLAS – Former naval aviator Don Boecker isn't too proud to say he was scared out of his wits on that July 1965 day in Laos when he dangled by one arm from a helicopter while enemy soldiers took aim below.
Boecker had spent the longest night of his life in the thick jungle, evading capture and certain execution while awaiting rescue. The Navy aviator had ejected after a bomb he intended to drop on the Ho Chi Minh trail exploded prematurely.
His rescuers that day, however, weren't from the American military, who couldn't be caught conducting a secret bombing campaign in Laos.
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