Vietnam Diary

June 11 -

Spend morning evaling with E-club super [?] - [?] party - great for - afternoon - as [v?] club errands -

Sam threat is back on in the DMZ - Two new operators around Hue - Phu bai - Starting to rotate A/C to Cubi for ALQ-51 gear about time!

PT program [?] - then on the beach for work out - It's light late so should be able to continue it [?] the summer - When Joe Miller gets back - I may start running in the morning.

Resulmullering plans for O-club - E-5 club [?] approval & money oked by board - still needs C6 - sign

Got some slides back - few arial shots and O-club construction -

13 June -

No hop - attempt to get the Danang cut turned back when I found out that 155 people ahead of me for a C. V.

So instead puttered around club & hut doing odds & ends of repairs & improvments.

Banged my head against the wall all afternoon trying to figure out plans for O-club electrical & bar systems Didn't proceed very far.

Still no stateside orders although most for VHA121 have arrived.

No P7 - little sun - relaxed and thought - also a project that is not proceeding as repidly as I would like

Yesterday had an L2P - 4 plane - I had gun pods but after getting airborne I noticed I didn't have the [?] cockpit panel - Brilliant ! -1 & -2 bombed a ville successful -3 dropped lazy dogs and I made -2 day news - ever the internal [?] wouldn't work - nothing ! - - 3 cost his CSD carry home so [?] gaggle coming home - Trouble when you have two leaders in the same section & are

has an emergency . - too many chiefs ! Hope to make it to Danang tomorrow via CH-54

WL-17 blew up on the burner ramp today with John Wilke wathing engine compressor disintigrated & threw blades all over & looked like a flame thrower for a while -

Checked into Hue flying - looks possible - Will have to check further when I return for R&R -

R&R Hong Kong -

19 June

Traveled to Danang yesterday via CH-53 spent late afternoon wandering aroundmet Hank Castle & set up for [?]

Slept late - 1000 ]?] for R&R

Wated around sweating [?] in trans - Seems to be only one I know.

Reading "In Cold Blood" to pass the time. 50c for an Orange ! - talk about Vietnam [?] ! [?] to aAir Force side the another 1 1/2 [?] [?] - now reading -

Finally boarded Pan Am DC-6 5 across didn't allow much elbow room but stewardi & good meal helped. Picked up lots of reading material along the way - will read later - 2+25 tip - all over water - then [?] curtains - [?] - Good R&R [?] & finally bus to hotel - Park as Hilton is full - Tourist season seems to be starting.

First impressions - Like any [?] city - [?] surrounding make me wonder about a missed approach - Small

people & cars - lots of bermdared? cops - Look sharp - Hong Kong dolls / U.S 17 to 1 [?] English across [?] [?] with pictures of Mao Tse Tung on store fronts

20 June -

After two beers & dinner I hit the rack early and slept about 10 hours - Lulled around the local shops but didn't buy anythine

Today had late breakfast and walked to "star" ferry - 5c to Hong Kong Island - Stopped at a few furniture stores - Lamentedly? good stuff - But a problem to ship out - Will have to buy in Okinawa & ship by orders - Taxied to China Fleet Club and there [?] shopped most of day - bought [?] [?] hope lives [?] cloth. and a gay Cashmere Sweater for myself - $16.00 U.S. - almost bought red Jansen ski sweater but they didn't have my size - Walked around Hong Kong looking for a place to get Cdn leather gloves fixed but no luck - Visited Hong Kong Hilton & bought - [?] attacks & negative viewer for minox - Plan to return there [?] for visit to "The Den" which looks like a swinging scene - Walked back to Star Ferry & returned to the Paul? Hotel - took a few pictures but haven't found anything really worth taking yet.

clothing, jewelry - furs, leggers? all well priced but not such different from Japan - Same hustlers all over the place

21 Jun -

Slept late - amazing how I sleep in air conditioning - no jet engines to wake up to in the morning.

Some shopping - Planned to take tour be canceled that when I ran into Phil Raglen - ex-Navy LT and my LSO Instructor at [?] - he's now a flight engineer with Pan Am on R&R run - Tough life - Talked with him about Chu Lai - and the analysis - Later went to Ascot [?] and ordered 6 shirts tailor made - Hoped to meet Phil after Alpa meeting but missed him - Dinner & went to bed about 5:00 - intending to get up at 9:00 but slept right through

22 - June -

Up at 8:00 for breakfast & hot? tour of Kowloon & New Territories at 9:20 - 3 of us (all servicemen) and a driver & guide in Mercedes Covered about 15 miles on Kowloon side - out to Red Chinese Border - Resettlement ava, - mostly a farm town of [?] - narrow roads - busy traffic - careening Mercedes - A few pictures - Surprised at Mts terrain - [?] Braking - or even norten cay - Scrub & Beach Pine plus tropical [?] - Nothing to compare with Colorado

Shopped around in P N - Looking for skin rug of some kind but could only find goat & sheep skins -

Shore & wandering from Pa to Ba - Hotel Barthol is - started at dark - then [?] [?] Mandarin - finally had dinner at Empress Hotel. Out rigger 16th floor - Good Filet Mignon after dinner - centinnel bar [?] - one discothque in Ser? hotel - good live entertainment - Two [?] in Ambassador - By thistime I was getting slightly poluted - called [?] about 1:00 AM -