That pushed Ellis’ head up against the canopy, which was filling with smoke. On fire, their plane flipped upside down.
It’s possible, Ellis said, that the fuses on the bombs his plane dropped malfunctioned, causing them to explode too soon and blow his jet out of the sky. After they had dropped their bombs and began to pull away, their plane exploded. Tracer fire flashed up at them while they rolled in. Ellis was 24.įlying in a F-4C Phantom jet, Ellis and his aircraft commander were told to bomb an anti-aircraft gun protecting a North Vietnamese supply ferry on the Song Gianh River. He was on his 53rd mission when his luck ran out. soldiers and Marines on the ground and bombed enemy supply lines. Air Force as a second lieutenant and headed off to the Vietnam War.Īs a fighter pilot, he protected U.S. The son of a farmer and a schoolteacher, Ellis graduated from Commerce High School and then the University of Georgia, where he participated in the ROTC program. Credit: Steve Schaefer/AJC ‘Hands up! Surrender! No die!’
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