"We were TDY at Fort Bragg, NC, working on a 'Big Picture' episode about the Army's elite parachute team, the 'Golden Knights,' and I was bunking on post at the BOQ while Vibo was staying in town at one of the local motels.

"The afternoon before our first day of shooting, Vibo invited me over to his motel to have a drink and to take advantage of the pool. As always he was chomping on a cigar as he opened a suitcase containing several bottles of William Lawson's scotch.

"Lawson's was hard to get in this neck of the woods, he explained, and he was taking no chances since we'd be 'on location' at least 3 weeks. As Vibo suited up, he introduced me to the 'smoothest scotch this side of heaven.'

"'You ever see a one-legged guy go swimming before?' he asked as he strapped on his artificial leg and pulled a pair of trousers on over it. 'Not really,' I said.

"Vibo explained he had lost his leg while shooting air-to-air combat footage during WWII.

"Out by the pool I settled in to watch the show. No one noticed as his trousers came off but when he unstraped his leg and hopped over the diving board all eyes were on Vibo.

"He bounced around on the end of the board, turning until his back was towards the pool and then did a perfect back flip into the water to a round of applause.

"Our first shot the next day was of Captain Bob Goode free-falling from a helicopter, opening his 'chute at low altitude and landing in front of the airborne soldier's statue as we zoomed in to a medium close up.

"Exciting, you bet, almost as exciting as watching Vibos' one-legged dive."

- Donald Fedynak, 2LT Signal Corps, Directors Branch, Producers Branch, 1968-69