In the chaos of Saigon’s fall, courage found a runway aboard USS Midway. On April 30, 1975, South Vietnamese pilot Major Buang-Ly placed his wife and five children into a two-seat O-1 Bird Dog and flew into the unknown, searching for hope. Low on fuel and out of options, he dropped a handwritten plea onto USS Midway’s flight deck, asking to land. In an extraordinary act of courage and sacrifice, USS Midway Cmdr. Vern Jumper, Capt. Larry Chambers and crew, cleared the deck. Then, Buang-Ly made on