Lieutenant Colonel Iceal E. Gene Hambleton, USAF was a United States Air Force navigator and electronic warfare officer who was shot down over South Vietnam during the 1972 Easter Offensive. He was aboard an EB66 aircraft whose call sign was Bat 21.30 As the ranking navigatorEWO on the aircraft, he was seated immediately behind the pilot, giving him the call sign BatBravo. He survived fordays behind enemy lines until he was retrieved in a daring ground operation. His rescue was the longest and most costly search and rescue mission during the Vietnam War. He received the Silver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal and a Purple Heart for his actions during this mission.
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