Whenever Billy Sparks was hungover, which was often, his fellow pilots would yell out, âHey, Sparky, let me see that aerial map of Hanoi.â
Sparks would then oblige. He had the ability to pull down on one of his lower eyelids, flex a combination of facial muscles, and force his eyeball to bulge gruesomely from its socket. Though Billyâs bulging, bloodshot eye the morning after a long night at Takhliâs Stag Bar was unnerving, pilots viewed it as something of a good-luck talisman. And its resemblance to the air forceâs bombing maps of Hanoi was so uncanny as to be satirically hilarious.
Whenever Billy Sparks was hungover, which was often, his fellow pilots would yell out, âHey, Sparky, let me see that aerial map of Hanoi.â
Sparks would then oblige. He had the ability to pull down on one of his lower eyelids, flex a combination of facial muscles, and force his eyeball to bulge gruesomely from its socket. Though Billyâs bulging, bloodshot eye the morning after a long night at Takhliâs Stag Bar was unnerving, pilots viewed it as something of a good-luck talisman. And its resemblance to the air forceâs bombing maps of Hanoi was so uncanny as to be satirically hilarious.