![]() ![]() So he found himself, in November 1966, in Vietnam, a member of the 155th Assault Helicopter Company stationed at Camp Coryell in Ban Me Thuot in the central highlands. He really didn’t want to fly helicopters, but he did want to fly, and that seemed to be the only option available. “Of course,” Haga said, “you knew you were going Vietnam. The service offered recruits something called “high school to flight school” to fill its need for helicopter pilots. ![]() He couldn’t afford college – and college, in almost all respects, was considered a prerequisite for flight school. (Undated) - Jim Haga graduated from high school in Doylestown in 1966, and like a lot of young men, he dreamed of flying. (Photo: Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record) Veterans with the group Liberty War Bird Association, a nonprofit organization, have spent the past three years in the Lancaster Airport restoring a Vietnam era Huey helicopter. Now, it’s time to find better ways to interact with you and ensure we meet your high standards of what a credible media organization should be. The days of journalism’s one-way street of simply producing stories for the public have long been over.
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