Saddam was target of crew
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER | Apr 18, 2003 |
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 Capt. Sloan Hollis |  |
Frank Hollis was happy when he found out this week that his son, Capt. Sloan Hollis, had received the Distinguished Flying Cross from the U.S. Air Force for dropping the bombs that might have killed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
But that was nothing compared with the news he got a few days later.
“I’m doing real good,” drawled Hollis, a former rodeo rider from Varina. “My boy’s coming home.
Sloan Hollis, 28, is tentatively scheduled to leave for the United States on Wednesday, his father said.
Earlier this week, the Air Force awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross to Sloan and three other members of his B-1 crew. The crew had responded quickly to information that Saddam and his sons were meeting in an af-fluent neighborhood in Baghdad. They dropped four bombs on the targeted site on April 7, but there has been no confirmation that the deposed dictator was there.
