Billy Waugh, a decorated Special Forces veteran and CIA operative whose missions included a firefight in Vietnam that left him near death, hunting Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and tracking the terrorist mastermind “Carlos the Jackal,” died April 4 at 93.
Mr. Waugh’s mix of combat valor and covert credentials made him a hallowed figure among military groups and the intelligence community, honored for generation-spanning service from the Korean War in the 1950s to Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.was part of the lore: how he tried to hitchhike from Texas to Los Angeles during World War II on rumors that California would allow 16-year-olds to enlist.
parachute drop: exiting the aircraft at high altitudes and deploying the chute at the last moment to limit the chances for detection. . Mr. Waugh’s team expected a few hundred North Vietnamese fighters. Instead, there were more than 4,000, Mr. Waugh recounted.Nearly out of ammunition, Mr. Waugh was hit in the knee by machine-gun fire, and then in the foot and ankle. A bullet, tearing through the bamboo cover, gouged a two-inch gash in his forehead.“Hunting the Jackal,”
North Vietnamese soldiers assumed Mr. Waugh was dead. They took his equipment, watch and uniform, leaving him naked. That’s how he was found by his unit. He was awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart, among his many decorations. His commander, Capt. Paris Davis, was“I’m a pioneer of the modern warfare era,” Mr. Waugh said in a 2005 interview with the Associated Press. “If I’d been living in olden days, I would have been at the Alamo or across the Rockies.
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