MAJ. Nguyen Quy An and his daughter, Kim Ngoc, are greeted by COL. Robert D. Phillips, vice commander, 60th Airlift Wing, on arrival at Travis AFB. An, a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, risked his life by flying his CH-34 Sikorsky helicopter into the path of a UH-1H helicopter to force it to abort an unsafe landing on a field, sabotaged by the enemy, and then shepherded the crippled helicopter to a safe haven. The then South Vietnamese Air Force captain evacuated the four American soldiers from the sniper-filled jungle in Laos. Exact Date Shot Unknown .Published in AIRMAN Magazine November 1994