- Joined
- Oct 11, 2010
- Messages
- 12,387
- Reaction score
- 6,946
- Age
- 60
Born October 3, 1947, Captain Mary Therese Klinker was a flight nurse assigned to Clark Air Base in the Philippines.-
She was attending to the health care of hundreds of Vietnamese orphans on a U.S. Air Force C-5A Galaxy which crashed on April 4, 1975 near Saigon. The plane was on a mission for Operation Babylift, which had placed hundreds of Amerasian orphans with homes in the U.S.A.-
Captian Klinker was 27 years old.-
She was posthumously awarded the Airman's Medal for Heroism and the Meritorious Service Medal.-
She was attending to the health care of hundreds of Vietnamese orphans on a U.S. Air Force C-5A Galaxy which crashed on April 4, 1975 near Saigon. The plane was on a mission for Operation Babylift, which had placed hundreds of Amerasian orphans with homes in the U.S.A.-
Captian Klinker was 27 years old.-
She was posthumously awarded the Airman's Medal for Heroism and the Meritorious Service Medal.-