Comments on: Medal of Honor, Major Leo Keith Thorsness, United States Air Force

By: Carl Hellis, Lt Col, USAF (Ret)

Carl Hellis, Lt Col, USAF (Ret) — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 04:25:27 +0000

Leo was friend and hero to me. Nothing was mentioned of the 6+ years that he spent in Hanoi after his shootdown. His book on being a POW “Surviving Hell” is an excellent read. Nickel!

By: Bryan Swopes

Bryan Swopes — Wed, 03 May 2017 22:11:28 +0000

In reply to John Terino. Thanks, John. I just saw this news.

By: John Terino

John Terino — Wed, 03 May 2017 20:16:13 +0000

Leo Thorsness has gone west. http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2017/05/leo_thorsness_recipient_of_med.html

By: Bryan Swopes

Bryan Swopes — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 03:06:02 +0000

In reply to Opus.

Thank you very much. I’m sure that you are correct. I just rechecked my notes and found that “[pulse recurrence frequency]” was in the original text from “Aces and Aerial Victories: The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia 1965–1973.” I should not have highlighted it or put it in italics. The document was published by the Air University and the Office of Air Force History in 1976, so I’m sure that it is an older term, but I hesitate to update it and change the text. Thank very much for your comments, and I’m very glad that you enjoy “This Day in Aviation.” —Bryan

By: Opus

Opus — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 01:01:48 +0000

Love your blog, your stories, your subjects, your pictures and your undying interest in aviation.

For the record, PRF is an acronym now parsed as “pulse repetition frequency”. I acknowledge that perhaps “pulse recurrence frequency” may have been the term at the time, but I wanted to point out the difference.

Cheers!