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In 1972, Air Force navigator Gene Hambleton was shot down over enemy territory in Vietnam, and a ferocious offensive beat back every attempt to rescue him. In today's show we'll learn how his lifelong passion for golf became the key to his escape.
We'll also learn about a videogame based on the Dyatlov Pass incident and puzzle over why a military force drops bombs on its friends.
Sources for our feature on Gene Hambleton:
William C. Anderson, BAT-21, 1980.
Darrell D. Whitcomb, The Rescue of BAT...
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