Be In It to Win

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ON JUNE 17, 1966, Paul E. Galanti, an accomplished

U.S. Naval force pilot took off from the USS

Hancock

in his

A-4 Skyhawk to fly his ninety-seventh battle crucial

Vietnam. Galanti, who characterizes

inspiration

as “doing whatever

the hellfire you need to do to take care of business,” was going to

approach his objective region as the antiaircraft fire hit his lone fly

motor. “At the point when the motor got hit, the plane burst into flames . . .

it was rolling and tumbling,” he depicted, the data-

strophic experience. “The exact opposite thing I saw (previously

the power went out) was 3,000 feet going down on the

dial.” As the plane ran wild, the tail brushed off and

Galanti attempted hysterically to build up radio contact with the

other airplane.

Smoke came into the cockpit and his brain flashed the caution

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ing, “You should hinder the plane as much as

you can before catapulting.” The controls neglected to react to the

pilot’s orders. Each brief moment considered the plane

moved toward the ground in a bewildering falling, tumbling, and

moving example. Galanti kept his cool. “There is a face window ornament

in the headrest of the seat. You just draw it over your face

to shield your face from the breeze impact. That fires a rocket

from under the seat, it passes over the covering, and you’re launched out

of the plane.”