Monday, 14 January 2019

Joe M. Jackson, American Air Force officer, Died at 95

Joe Madison Jackson born on  March 14, 1923, and died on January 13, 2019.

 
Jackson filled in as a professional officer in the United States Air Force and got the Medal of Honor for gallantry far in excess of what was required amid the Vietnam War.

On 12 May 1968, he volunteered for a perilous off the cuff save of three residual Air Force individuals caught at an invading Army Special Forces camp. 

While the camp was still under overwhelming adversary fire from North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, he skillfully guided his C-123 load plane and protected the three men. 

Jackson was an ardent model airship fan in his childhood. 

Jackson enrolled in the Army Air Corps in March 1941, a couple of days after his eighteenth birthday celebration, with expectations of being a plane technician.

Joe Madison Jackson passed away at 95 years old.

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