F-106A 59-0039 pilot (27th FIS Loring AFB ME) Capt Ray Girard's personal Thank You letter to H-43B Huskie helicopter pilot Joe Connell and the MATS members who saved him from the burning aircraft. 59-0039 crashed on 8 Oct 1963. Pilot Capt Ray Girard was saved from this crash by H-43B Huskie pilot Joe Connell. [Joe Connell collection]