Captain Ed Freeman

Ed W. “Too Tall” Freeman (November 20, 1927 – August 20, 2008) was a United States Army helicopter pilot who received the United States military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War.

(commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.

You’re lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you’re not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you’ll never see them again.
— JamesRPBarnes (@James_RP_Barnes) August 8, 2021

Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.

He’s not MedEvac so it’s not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he’s flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway. Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He’s coming anyway. And he drops it in and sits
— JamesRPBarnes (@James_RP_Barnes) August 8, 2021

the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm.

He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey. Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army, died at the age of 81, in Boise, Idaho. pic.twitter.com/O9Qi9g5O28
— JamesRPBarnes (@James_RP_Barnes) August 8, 2021

Captain Ed Freeman

Captain Ed Freeman

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