Larry W. Maysey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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USAF airman
Date of Birth: 18-May-1946
Place of Birth: Chester Borough, New Jersey, United States
Date of Death: 09-Nov-1967
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Larry W. Maysey
- Sergeant Larry Wayne Maysey (May 18, 1946 – November 9, 1967) was a United States Air Force pararescueman who was posthumously awarded the Air Force Cross, the Air Force's second-highest decoration (after the Medal of Honor). Maysey grew up in Chester Borough, New Jersey and graduated from West Morris Central High School.On 8 November 1967 two HH-3E Jolly Green Giants of the 37th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron were launched on a night mission to extract five survivors of a Special Forces reconnaissance team.
- The site was known to be hot, surrounded by a well-disciplined, People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) battalion.
- A Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF) and a United States Army helicopter had already been shot down and destroyed.
- Illuminated by a C-130 Hercules flare ship dropping LUU-2 parachute flares, Jolly 29 made a pickup of three survivors before being driven off by intense enemy fire.
- Jolly 29, with heavy battle damage, landed at the USMC Khe Sanh Combat Base.
- Maysey's helicopter Jolly 26 then attempted to pick up the remaining two survivors, both now wounded.
- Fighting, both in the air and on the ground, was intense.
- Maysey jumped from the safety of Jolly 26, and ran down a steep slope rescuing the two remaining men.
- Jolly 26 was now being hit with small arms fire.
- Just after Maysey had helped both survivors safely on board, a rocket propelled grenade struck the number one engine, fatally crippling the craft.
- The engine exploded, inverting the aircraft, which rolled and skidded down a deep ravine and burst into flames; a pilot and one other man survived the crash.
- Maysey received the Air Force Cross posthumously.
- The pilot Captain Gerald Young was rescued later that day and subsequently awarded the Medal of Honor.
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