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...Chinese Accent. Crew Chief Sergeant Robert H. appeared with a jug of coffee. He said that this was about his 30th mission to Dienbienphu. What's it like? "Haven't you heard? The Viets have flak guns," he replied. "It gives you some interesting sensations. Forgive us please, messieurs, there's no sugar for the coffee." Sergeant K. interrupted: "It's tougher on the ground." Sergeant H. continued: "Last night we had to make six passes over the drop zone. The first one was O.K. Then the Viets spotted us. Tracers came up zzzt zzzt zzzt...
...Lone Beacon. At 0050, air-ground reported: "Banjo Six is going in."Tracers arched over the drop zone. On Banjo Six's second pass, there were more enemy tracers and white bursts of flak following the plane. Banjo Six reported one hit but no casualties. At 0103, a mortar flare bloomed over the drop zone and revealed, for an elusive moment, the trenches and scarred earth below. Then mortar shells burst in angry red balls across the drop zone. For the paratroopers that was the toughest drop of the night...
...wounded. French patrols, water parties and couriers had to run a deadly daytime gauntlet. French pilots chalked such notes as "best wishes" and "May your buttocks be scorched" on their bombs, and flew three missions a day against the Red emplacements. But they got poor results through the heavy flak, the camouflage and the mist...
Your Aug. 24 story of Captain Austin King's use of salad oil to solve his hydraulic problem over Seoul in his C46 recalled the time our 6-24, Sweet Sue, took a German flak burst amidships early in '44, which pierced several small holes in our hydraulic lines...
What Next? At dawn on the third day, G.I.s donned their "flak jackets" and helmets again, moved down the scarred slopes from dozens of famous hills where U.N. soldiers had died: Heartbreak Ridge, Whitehorse Mountain, Christmas Hill, The Hook, Little Gibraltar. Somber and unsmiling, the men wondered what would happen to them next...