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44 "Iraq 91Stuck Hand" - Incident took place at Al Jouf, Saudi Arabia, while two PJs tried to hang blankets to darken out the windows. This in case they have to use light to give medical aid to a patient during night flight over hostile terrain. One PJ poked a hole right through his hand, instead of the blanket to fasten 550-cord. |
45 "Iraq Dune Hit" - Supposed to have happened on 19 January 1991 over Arabian desert terrain. No damage happened to chopper and crew. |
46 "Iraq NVG" - drawn on the input from a PJ, who was there when it happened during a Iraqi War night mission. Someone threw out a lit cigarette butt, which appeared greatly illuminated to viewers with Night Vision Goggles. |
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47 An exaggeration of a near miss on a flight over Iraqi Bad Guy territory in 1991. |
48 Iraq War Map - Shows the various locations of Pararescue teams, as well as others of CSAR deployment. Also shows location of the RCC (Rescue Coordination Center) and where once before, many years ago (late 40s and early 50s) USAF Air Rescue Service aircraft (SB-17/SA-16/H-5/C-47) crews, PJs, ground-Rescue and ground support were located. The cartoon was given to the Pararescue School, Kirtland AFB, NM. |
49 PJ Hootch in Iraq - An look at life in the PJ hootch during the 1991 Iraq War. |
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50 OPS Normal - this I drew after it happened over hostile territory in 1971, when warnings came of SAM and MIG threats. I made the wisecrack over the intercom, which made our Jolly Green pilot not too happy at the time. |
51 JG #3Gun Position - This was one of my ridiculous suggestions to place an armored garbage can on the tailgate of the Super Jolly Green HH-53. |
52 305th ARRS Iceland 1968/69 and HC-97 Iceland 1968 and Scramble! are sketches I made while TDY in Iceland. The pictures were later done in color and given away. The 305th ARRS had been activated (Pueblo Crisis) in January 1968. The unit was tasked on a continuing basis to provide two HC-97s and air rescue crews, with ground support personnel, for the Keflavik stationed USAF fighter squadron. Soviet Bears often penetrated the sea around Iceland, prompting the launching of F-102s to intercept.
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53 HC-97 Iceland 1968 - See description on picture # 52 |
54 SCRAMBLE - See description on picture # 52 |
55 PJ Advanced Medical Training - Drawn (along with other posters) in about 1971/72 for the Pararescue School, 1550ATTW, Hill AFB, Utah. |
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56 PJ on Ground - was sketched while on a training mission in a friendly area - the PJ with me on the ground was Colin Lane. |
57 Hard Landing - depicts an exaggeration of how hard some of the no-wind-open-field parachute landings were, using 28-foot canopies in the early 1950s. |
58 PJs & UFO - Beginning in the early 1960s, PJs were much involved in support of Space Hardware and Astronaut recovery operations. I drew this for a dude to settle a dispute over the German AF in WWII, who already had and used air-sea rescue aircraft from 1938 to 1945. Depicted is the primary type of amphibian rescue aircraft. |
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59 PJ Crew Position - No explanation needed |
60 Udo 1973 presentation |
61 Another Udo presentation |
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62 "Giggling Bitch" |
63 Airborne PJ Patch (patch not designed by Udo Fischer) |
64 305th ARS Patch (patch not designed by Udo Fischer) |
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65 HU16 Combat - was drawn for Old Bone PJ Tony Willis, who often remarked in the 1970s, his puzzlement that hardly anyone was aware that the the "Albatross" (SA-16/HU-16) actually was used in the combat zones of the Korean War and in the Vietnam War (Gulf of Tonkin). |
66 Son Tay Raid - This famous patch was designed by Udo |
67 Crazy PJ - A copy of a cartoon drawn circa 1971 |
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68 Crazy PJ Colorized - Revised drawing #67 |
69 Go get e'm! Drawn for Stu Stanaland circa 1971 |
70 "Sawadee Party" - Sawadee is Thai for goodbye. After a rescueman's last flight over the fence, the unit held a Sawadee party to celebrate the guy going home. Most of these parties got pretty wild. |
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71 Picture from Col Jay Strayer. Pic of Udo's rendering of Jolly 56 which he was crewing with me as we returned from a CSAR mission over Laos -- unknown to me, my UHF GUARD channel had been inadvertently switched off during one of the few MIG ALERTs we encountered circa 1970-71-- indeed it was not long after we lost a JG to a MIG -- we did not hear about the alert till I noticed GUARD was off as we were about to return across the border from Laos into Thailand -- we were sure fortunate that day; but, Udo was not quite so polite about it |
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Udo's very last ornamental caligraphy creation he made in (1982) for a special occasion. Every item on it had been hand-drawn and is of original design. Due to increasing tremors and pain in his right arm, he abandoned such type free-hand artwork. |
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