LORCH, Kendall G (Major)

Call No.: K239.0512-355

IRIS No.: 01001218, 01010718, C.2

IRIS Tape No.: 010000294

Accessibility: OPEN

Pages/Time: 28 pp/0:48

Class: U

Date/Location: 28 August 1970/Andrews AFB MD

Interviewers: Lt. Colonel Ray L. Bowers

Source: Project CORONA HARVEST Collection

Topics:

(1963) Oral history interview with Major Kendall Lorch, member of the "Dirty Thirty", a group of USAF C-47 pilots flying as copilots with the South Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) air transport group. Interview focuses on problems of crew coordination and communication; techniques of flare, airdrop and instrument flying; friction between the nationalities; capabilities of VNAF at this time and finally events leading to the overthrow of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem from Lorch's viewpoint.