Warbird Information Exchange

I don't know if this has already been posted, but I just found out in an E mail that ret. Army Capt. Ed Freeman MOH awardee died on Mar. 23rd in Boise ID. Capt Freeman defied orders to stop flying into a heavily outnumbered LZ on Nov. 11, 1967 to continue removing wounded soldiers. Makes you feel kind of insignificant doesn't it?

Beyond his service in the Navy in World War II,[4] he reached the Army rank of first sergeant by the time of the Korean War. Although he was in the Corps of Engineers, he fought as an infantry soldier in Korea. He participated in the Battle of Pork Chop Hill and earned a battlefield commission as one of only 14 survivors out of 257 men who made it through the opening stages of the battle. His second lieutenant bars were pinned on by General James Van Fleet personally. He then assumed command of B Company and led them back up Pork Chop Hill.

The commission made him eligible to become a pilot, a childhood dream of his. However, when he applied for pilot training he was told that, at six feet four inches, he was "too tall" for pilot duty. The phrase stuck, and he was known by the nickname of "Too Tall" for the rest of his career