Special crest to mark the fact that this is the famous 'Hanoi Taxi', the C-141 that brought the first POWs home from North Vietnam during Operation Homecoming. This was also the last Starlifter to be retired from USAF service in 2006.
This ex-Ranch Hand, Vietnam combat veteran is now on display at the National Museum of the USAF. She acquired the nickname 'Patches' as a result of sustaining innumerable bullet holes and hits that then required to be patched up.
on display at National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, OH ("Betty Jo" - a/c is displayed in the markings of its historic Hawaii to New York flight in 1947)