OTTO CAP 5 Panel Mid Profile Baseball Cap

100% Cotton

Structured

• Firm Front Panel
• 5-panel cap
• Seamless Front Panel with Full Buckram
• 4 Sewn Eyelets
• Slight Curved Visor
• 6 Rows Stitching on Visor
• Matching Fabric Undervisor
• Matching Color Sweatband
• Adj. Hook & Loop Closure
• Size: OSFM - Adult (58cm/22.8")
• Direct-to-film (DTF)

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“The 240^th’s Time In Hell”

“The 240^th AHC operated about 30 UH1 “Huey” helicopters from their main operating base at Bearcat, Vietnam.  During the early spring of 1968, about eight of their aircraft and crews were attached to Project Sigma’s Detachment B-56 of the 5^th AFGA to support that unit’s top-secret covert operations into Cambodia.  Several months later, it was this detachment of the 240^th that fought the battle that Roy Benavidez came to call “Six Hours In Hell.” Over 36 members of the 240^th AHC participated in the Benavidez Medal of Honor Incident.  They started the emergency extraction with four gunships and four slicks, but were reduced to three operational aircraft by the time Roy Benavidez had joined the mission.  Three members of the 240^th AHC gave their lives for their country and their comrades on 05/02/68, during the action in Cambodia for which Roy Benavidez was awarded the Medal of Honor.  Thirty-three others of the 240^th gave and survived heroic performances that day.”  We do not know of any subsequent missions for B-50 or B-56, C5 or CCS that were flown by the 240^th.