The Don Englebreston Collection
Attendees at the Ballroom Counter, with the Douglas Skyraider Shirt in Full View, SOAR XXXVII, Las Vegas, 2013
SOAR XXXVII, Las Vegas, 2013. Four attendees at the ballroom counter, the group's conversation centered on the man in the Tennessee Museum of Aviation's Douglas Skyraider shirt — identified elsewhere in this collection as Don Engebretson. The A-1 Skyraider was a single-engine, propeller-driven attack aircraft retained long into the jet age for its endurance and heavy ordnance load; its crews flew close air support and rescue escort for MACV-SOG reconnaissance teams operating in Laos and Cambodia, and their association with SOG veterans continues at these reunions. Project: 219861