{"id":204,"date":"2016-08-16T13:43:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T13:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/?p=204"},"modified":"2016-08-16T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T13:45:28","slug":"d227-support-for-wo-ferguson-moh-action-at-battle-of-hue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"D\/227 Support for WO Ferguson MOH action at Battle of Hue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D\/227 Crew Chief Hank Steffes provided an article that appeared in the Army Avn Digest in 1983.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/StayClearofHue.pdf\">Stay Clear of Hue PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Although the article is about W.O. Ferguson who was in C co. It is also about the two Dco. gunships that went into Hue to cover for him.<br \/>\nI am sure that no one in Dco. that was there for the Tet Offensive will ever forget the battle for Hue. <\/p>\n<p>My aircraft was shot down in this rescue attempt(as mentioned in the article). So I attached my award of the DFC to compare to the story in the article.  My gunner at the time was Paul Steed and he too was awarded the DFC. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Steed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Steed-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Steed building shower Camp Evans\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Steed-215x300.jpg 215w, http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Steed.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Steed building shower Camp Evans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Paul died in 1994 after suffering PTSD for years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\/227 Crew Chief Hank Steffes provided an article that appeared in the Army Avn Digest in 1983. Stay Clear of Hue PDF Although the article is about W.O. Ferguson who was in C co. It is also about the two Dco. gunships that went into Hue to cover for him. I am sure that no&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}