Sergeant Larry W. Maysey was a United States Air Force Pararescueman who was awarded the Air Force Cross medal. The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aviation branch of the United States armed forces. ... The Air Force Cross is a military decoration which is issued in the following countries: The Air Force Cross of the United Kingdom The Air Force Cross of the United States This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

On 8 November 1967 two HH-3E Jolly Green Giants are launched on a night mission to extract five survivors of a Special Forces reconnaissance team. This site is known to be hot, surrounded by a well-disciplined, crack North Vietnamese Army (NVA) battalion. A Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF) and a U.S. Army helicopter have already been shot down and destroyed. Illuminated by a C-130 flare ship dropping LUU-2 parachute flares, Jolly 29 made a pickup of three survivors before being driven off by intense enemy fire. '29, with heavy battle damage, lands at the USMC outpost of Khe Sanh. Jolly 26 attempts to pick up the remaining two survivors, both now wounded. Fighting, both in the air and on the ground, is intense. Larry jumps from the safety of '26, and runs down a steep slope rescuing the two remaining men. '26 is now being slammed with small arms fire. Just after Larry helps both survivors safely onboard, an RPG (rocket propelled grenade) strikes the number one engine, fatally crippling the bird. The engine explodes, inverting the aircraft wherein it rolls and skid down a deep ravine and bursts into flames within pilot and one other man survive the fiery crash. Sergeant Maysey receives the Air Force Cross medal posthumously. The pilot Captain Gerald Young is rescued later that day and subsequently is awarded the Medal of Honor medal. NVA is a three-letter abbreviation for North Vietnamese Army (also known as the Peoples Army of Vietnam) Nationale Volksarmee, the National Peoples Army of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie, Belgian political party. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... The Lockheed C-130 Hercules, a four-engine turboprop aircraft, is the main tactical air transport aircraft of the United States and UK military forces. ... United States Marine Corps Emblem The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is the second smallest of the five branches of the United States armed forces, with 170,000 active and 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2002. ... RPG is an abbreviation with several different meanings: Role-playing game Hand Held Anti-tank Grenade Launcher (from Russian Ручной противотанковый гранатомет ; (Ruchnoi Protivotankovye Granatamyot), literally hand held antitank grenade-launcher) RPG-7 Soviet Cold War hand held anti-tank grenade launcher RPG-29 Modern Russian hand held anti-tank grenade launcher RPG... The Air Force Cross is a military decoration which is issued in the following countries: The Air Force Cross of the United Kingdom The Air Force Cross of the United States This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Posthumous means after death. ... The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States. ...

The Pararescue Association. (1996). Sergeant Larry W. Maysey pg. 106: Fine Books Publishing Company, LLC Charlotte, NC. Library of Congress Number: 94-061879

External links

• Air Force Link entry: PJ Chief Master Sergeant Duane D. Hackney
• Air Force Link entry: PJ Airman First Class William H. Pitsenbarger
• Air Force Link entry: PJ Technical Sgt. Tim Wilkinson
• United States Air Force Pararescue Association
• A1C Bill Pitsenbarger posthumously awarded Medal of Honor for actions in Vietnam in 1966