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Tony Plattner
Clemens M. (Tony) Plattner was born July 29, 1930, in Walker, Minn. After finishing Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., with a BA degree in mathematics, he entered the navy flight training progr...view moreClemens M. (Tony) Plattner was born July 29, 1930, in Walker, Minn. After finishing Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., with a BA degree in mathematics, he entered the navy flight training program and became a Marine Corps pilot. After working at the family’s weekly newspaper business for a period, he moved on as a reporter for one of McGraw-Hill’s top magazines, Aviation Week & Space Technology, in 1962. He was sent to Vietnam in the fall of 1965 and spent significant time in the field and flew numerous combat missions as an observer writing his series after returning to the States. He left the magazine in 1970 to join Honeywell Aerospace Co. He served twenty-seven years with Honeywell before retiring from various sales and marketing positions in 1997. He eventually moved to Tacoma, Wash., where he now lives.view less
Books by Tony Plattner
EXONERATION FINALLY!: The true story of a Vietnam reporter’s fight to prevent conviction by the US government