Buttelmann, who died in late September, shot down seven MiGs in Korea and received two Distinguished Flying Crosses — and then returned to war a dozen years later in Vietnam, earning two more DFCs.
Fifty years ago, 1st Lt. Fred Abrams and his wingman, the late Maj. Joe Bulger, carried out danger-close airstrikes on their own base, where Viet Cong infiltrators had dug in to make their last stand.
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