Thomas F. (hardtack) -
This is an amazing and entertaining story of a man---William Diebold---who, during World War II, reported into a base in India to fly planes, and ended up jumping out of them to rescue other pilots.
As he was waiting to speak to his new commanding office, that man mentioned they had a plane lost and a possible survivor and wondered aloud how to rescue him. Diebold suggested someone parachute into the jungle. When asked who would do that, Diebold, who had never taken any parachute training, surprised himself by volunteering to do so.
As a result, Diebold earned a new job, and the admiration of numerous pilots, of jumping into areas---jungles and mountainous terrain---where English wasn't spoken, white men were seldom or never seen, rescuing men who were injured and then having the pleasure of taking weeks to walk out of area where roads were non-existent.
And he tells the story as if he was sitting in your living room, wise-cracking away. This is a great personal story of World War II of a man who saved the downed airmen who flew "The Hump."
As he was waiting to speak to his new commanding office, that man mentioned they had a plane lost and a possible survivor and wondered aloud how to rescue him. Diebold suggested someone parachute into the jungle. When asked who would do that, Diebold, who had never taken any parachute training, surprised himself by volunteering to do so.
As a result, Diebold earned a new job, and the admiration of numerous pilots, of jumping into areas---jungles and mountainous terrain---where English wasn't spoken, white men were seldom or never seen, rescuing men who were injured and then having the pleasure of taking weeks to walk out of area where roads were non-existent.
And he tells the story as if he was sitting in your living room, wise-cracking away. This is a great personal story of World War II of a man who saved the downed airmen who flew "The Hump."
