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G-PA INDY @GPAIndiana - Video: James Stockdale sat alone in a North Vietnamese prison cell in September 1965 and smashed a wooden stool into his own face, even though he knew the injuries would leave him permanently scarred and barely able to see.
He did it for one reason.
The guards were preparing him
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Video: Bruce Crandall kept turning his helicopter back toward the gunfire.
It was November 14, 1965, in the la Drang Valley, Vietnam. American soldiers were surrounded and outnumbered. Enemy fire was so intense that medical evacuation helicopters refused to land.
Wounded men were bleeding out on the battlefield.
Crandall did not accept that.
Born on February 17, 1933, in Olympia, Washington, he was a 32 year old Army major commanding an air cavalry unit. When he learned that injured soldiers were trapped without ammunition or medical support, he made a decision that could cost him everything.
He flew into the landing zone.
Not once.
22 times.
Each time, bullets ripped through the air. His helicopter was hit repeatedly. The landing zone was barely secure. Soldiers dove for cover as he touched down. He delivered ammunition. He loaded the wounded. He lifted off again into enemy fire.
Other pilots refused to fly. Crandall kept going.