Room on TCTAA Cruise and new book on Dieter Dengler

[SamMcGowan]

Two things - first, Tom Stalvey wants me too let everyone know that he has an extra bunk in his cabin on the Troop Carrier/Tactical Airlift cruise next month. We're leaving out of Galveston on October 16 and coming back October 21, the day the TCTAA convention starts. If interested, Email Tom at tstal7777@comcast.net.

Second, I've just learned that a new book was recently published on the life of Dieter Dengler, the US Navy pilot who escaped from a Pathet Lao POW camp just south of the Mu Gia Pass and was finally rescued when he was spotted waving a parachute from a flare that had been dropped over him after he set an abandoned village on fire by a Blind Bat C-130 crew. Check www.brucehendersonbooks.com to order. Bruce is a noted author who was on the same ship with Dieter and was there the day they flew him onto the carrier Ranger.