By John L. Frisbee, Contributing Editor Pardo's Push Uncommon courage, ingenuity, and skill were combined in a unique experience of the Vietnam War.
T here are pilots who fly fighters, and there are fighter pilots.
Retired Lt. Col. Bob Pardo is one of the latter. When he's not flying corporate jets in Colorado, he's doing aerobatics in single-engine planes with fighter pilot friends. Steve Wayne, went against steel mills near Hanoi. In their flight was Capt. The Hanoi area was the most heavily defended in the history of air warfare, and on that day enemy ground fire was the heaviest Captain Pardo had seen in his many trips downtown.