Introduction

“When I have your wounded.”

Those were the words US Army Major Charles Livingston Kelly growled just before taking a bullet in the chest while flying his Dustoff Huey helicopter into a hot LZ near Vinh Long on 01 July 1964. Those words – which Kelly barked out when a sergeant on the ground urged him not to risk landing – have been adopted as the credo of the US military men and women pilots, medics, and crew chiefs who do the highly dangerous humanitarian work of flying into combat areas to evacuate the wounded. (Leepson, 2017).

Refer to In the Shadow of the Blade (2004) and A Touch of Home: The Vietnam War’s Red Cross Girls (2007).

Outline

It’s a mission like no other – flying unarmed helicopters into the teeth of battle to save the lives of the wounded in war. From the legendary pioneers of Army MEDEVAC in Korea and Vietnam to the front-line “Dustoff” missions in the deserts of the Middle East, When I Have Your Wounded carries viewers through a harrowing, heroic, life-saving revolution in battlefield medicine, a revolution forged by the unhesitating, uncompromising dedication of soldiers who put their own lives on the line so that others ma live. Join today’s heroes of Dustoff as they rescue wounded from the front lines in Afghanistan and meet yesterday’s pioneers as they recount the birth and tests of the U.S. Army’s most noble mission…When I Have Your Wounded: The DUSTOFF Legacy.

Production & Filming Details

• Director(s):
  • Patrick Fries
• Producer(s):
• Writer(s):
  • Cheryl Fries … screenplay
• Music:
• Cinematography:
• Editor(s):
• Production:
  • Arrowhead Films
  • US Army Medical Centre of History and Heritage
• Distributor(s):
• Release Date: 2012.
• Running Time: 57 minutes.
• Rating: Unknown.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.

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