"I knew if I were still alive on March 5, 1968, I could get on the plane in Da Nang we used to call the 'Freedom Bird.' I could fly away and forget the whole thing. It turned out not to be quite so easy to forget it."
As a 21-year-old hospitalman in the Korean War, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Francis “Doc” Hammond saved countless lives during intense battles with enemy forces before losing his own