Chief flight nurse
Maj. Mary A.
Goddard checks the
condition of some of
the 56 Vietnamese
paraplegics being
flown from Saigon to
Travis Air Force Base
in Texas on Nov.9,
- The mercy flight,
ordered by President
Lyndon B. Johnson,
ultimately took them
to the Veterans
Administration
Hospital in Castle
Point, New York, for
treatment.
An ambulance bus
backs into a C-141
Starlifter that has
arrived at Travis Air
Force Base with
patients who will
transported to the
base hospital.
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