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freedom bird
noun
an aeroplane bringing troops back to the US from Vietnam US, 1971- It is traditional for every grunt leaving the bush for the last time–for the freedom bird, home–to get the glory ride. — William Pelfrey, The Big V, p. 120, 1972
- Sitting in foxholes that night watching the moon, watching shooting stars and sipping the new clean water, the Freedom Bird and the World didn’t look like lies anymore[.] — Charles Anderson, The Grunts, p. 77, 1976
- And when that year was over, when the “Freedom Bird” took me back to “the world,” I learned that my war was just beginning. — Lynda Van Devanter, Home Before Morning, p. 4, 1983
- [E]ven as the freedom birds began flying the first 25,000 boys home in June, Charlie Company and scores of line outfits like it were obliged to linger behind[.] — Peter Goldman and Tony Fuller, Charlie Company, p. 122, 1983
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