Martha Raye at Quan Loi

[1CAVCCO15MED]

She and I worked on some casualties together. But not Sid. Behind her is the entrance to my favorite bunker for hiding from rockets and mortars.

[82Rigger]

I heard that she was quite a poker player!

[1CAVCCO15MED]

I just know she wore black underwear.

[MORTARDUDE]

Great pic !!! Thanks !!

Larry

[phuloi]

OK Fred..More on the undies,please!

[darrels joy]

The rest of the story.....






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The following is from an Army Aviator friend who takes another trip down
memory lane:







It was just before Thanksgiving '67 and we were ferrying dead and wounded
from a large GRF west of Pleiku. We had run out of body bags by noon, so
the Hook ( CH-47 CHINOOK) was pretty rough in the back. All of a
sudden, we
heard a 'take-charge' woman's voice in the rear.

There was the singer and actress, Martha Raye, with a SF ( Special Forces)
beret and jungle fatigues, with subdued markings, helping the wounded into
the Chinook, and carrying the dead aboard. 'Maggie' had been visiting her
SF 'heroes' out 'west'.

We took off, short of fuel, and headed to the USAF hospital pad at Pleiku.
As we all started unloading our sad pax's, a 'Smart-Ass' USAF Captain said
to Martha.... Ms Ray, with all these dead and wounded to process,there
would not be time for your show!

To all of our surprise, she pulled on her right collar and
said.....Captain, see this eagle? I am a full 'Bird' in the US Army
Reserve, and on this
is a 'Caduceus' which means I am a Nurse, with a surgical
speciality....now,
take me to your wounded. He said, yes mam'.... Follow me.

Several times at the Army Field Hospital in Pleiku, she would 'cover' a
surgical shift, giving a nurse a well-deserved break.

Martha is the only woman buried in the SF (Special Forces) cemetery at Ft.
Bragg.

Hand Salute!