The Don Englebreston Collection
Pilot Joe Driscoll ('Scarface') Points to Battle Damage on Helicopter 'VT6', Operation Tailwind, Vietnam War
Pilot Joe Driscoll, flying under the call sign 'Scarface,' points to one of ten bullet strikes his helicopter sustained during the harrowing Operation Tailwind extraction mission in September 1970. Tailwind was a classified MACV-SOG incursion into Laos, and the helicopter crews who flew troops in and out under intense enemy fire faced extraordinary danger, damage like this bore witness to just how close those missions came to disaster. Project: 219488