The museum's newest permanent exhibit will open at 9 a.m. on Saturday, June 3 in the Southeast Asia Gallery. "That Others May Live" will tell the story of Search and Rescue operations during the wars in Southeast Asia.
On this day, from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., a series of free public presentations will be offered in the Carney Auditorium by our nation's veterans. See schedule and topics below and follow us here for additional updates.
10:00 a.m. Welcome
Pledge of Allegiance and Invocation
10:10 - 10:40 a.m.: Southeast Asia War "Big Picture" and Raven Operations
10:40 - 10:50 a.m.: The USAF Search and Rescue Task Force
11:00 - 11:50 a.m.: Nail 31A/B SAR: 19-20 March 1972 “A Pave Nail crew was down along the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos and found themselves amidst a North Vietnamese invasion force bound for Saigon"
12:00 - 12:50 p.m.: Cosmic 16B SAR: 26-27 April 1972 “Four First Lieutenant Sandy pilots head to North Vietnam to pickup a First Lieutenant RF-4C navigator who had been on the ground evading for seven days”
1:00 - 1:50 p.m.: Oyster 01B SAR: 1-2 June 1972 “Downed over northern North Vietnam and avoiding capture for 21 days, Captain Roger Locher heard the roar of two Sandy Skyraiders and he knew that help was at hand"
2:00 - 2:50 p.m.: Valent 03A/B and O4A/B SAR: 27 June 1972 “Two F-4E Phantoms from the same flight each downed by separate MiG 21s… Now we went to get them out”
3:00 - 3:20 p.m.: Blueghost 10 SAR: 12 June 1972 “We were told in survival school that our signal mirror could save our lives… in this case, it absolutely did"
3:30 - 4:50 p.m.: SOF/SOG support and Prairie Fire by 6th ACS and OLAA: “The secret war that most did not know about and their stories that now can be told"