Leaving on a Jet Plane [John Denver]

Staff Sgt. Megan Pomales and the Six-String Soldiers perform one of John Denver's most well-known songs, Leaving on a Jet Plane, written by Denver in 1966 during a layover at Washington Airport. Denver's father, Henry John "Dutch" Deutschendorf Sr., was an officer and pilot in the United States Army Air Force, and Denver himself was an avid pilot who loved to fly.
The photo at the beginning of the video shows paratroopers of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, the “Screaming Eagles,” boarding a C-141 on December 13, 1967 headed to Vietnam for Operation Eagle Thrust-the largest and longest air movement by the U.S. Air Force of U.S. combat forces to Southeast Asia. We dedicate this performance to all of our Vietnam veterans.
U.S. Army video by Sgt. 1st Class Jimi Little, audio by Staff Sgt. Jon Pusztai
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