Rare Vietnam POW MIA Bracelet - BAT 21 KIA Helicopter Pilot & Memorial Pamphlet

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Rare Vietnam POW MIA Bracelet to a BAT 21 Rescue Helicopter Pilot & Memorial Pamphlet
WO John W. Frink
USA
02 APR 1972 SVN
Frink, was the co-pilot of a UH-1H helicopter that responded to the Bat 21 "Mayday" call.
Frink's helicopter was subsequently shot down by enemy anti-aircraft fire...
The rescue of Bat 21 Bravo, the call sign for Iceal "Gene" Hambleton, a navigator aboard an EB-66 aircraft shot down behind North Vietnamese lines, was the "largest, longest, and most complex search-and-rescue" operation during the Vietnam War.
Frink was listed as MIA untill his remains were located until 1993... He was brought back to the US and burred in 1994, in the Santa Fe National Cemetery.
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