The Don Englebreston Collection

Don Engebretsen Addressing the SOG/SPAD Symposium, Panel and Audience in Frame, SOAR XXXVIII, Las Vegas, 2014

Don Engebretsen Addressing the SOG/SPAD Symposium, Panel and Audience in Frame, SOAR XXXVIII, Las Vegas, 2014

Don Engebretsen addresses the audience at a symposium session of the 38th Special Operations Association Reunion, Las Vegas, 2014, with the panel seated behind him. Engebretsen, a Douglas A-1 Skyraider pilot who flew with the Da Nang detachment known as OLAA, organized the reunion's SOG/SPAD Symposium; his orange party suit carries a fighter squadron patch, a 'SPAD' badge and the YANKEE AIR PIRATE skull-and-crossbones. At the far right of the panel sits Larry Warren of the 22nd Special Operations Squadron 'Zorros.' The 2014 reunion marked the 50th anniversary of MACV-SOG, whose reconnaissance teams the Skyraider squadrons supported across the border in Laos and Cambodia. This file is a reduced-size alternate rendition of the photographer's original frame. Project: 219875