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25 oct

Had a CAS with Bill Egan
-1000 meters Northwest of Can tien -
Diving through holes - UX 250 354 400
but the scattered went for 2500 to 2000 - hard
to dive bomb through a vertical shaft
oh well - Did ok - had to abort one run
as clouds drifted over [?] line - still
1 bunker dst - 1 bunker opened - seconary
all mine - Bell was hitting strut
Fell [?] briefly - then ODO all night -
wrote the schedule & sacked out about 1230
Slept briefly this morning after getting relieved
then 1315 [?] with Col walker - Fragged
for snakes & hop but charged to D25 & D8
(ugh) - good snake up - [?]
it after orbiting 3/4 hour - great fun -
got another TPQ tonight Dac "D" - first
in a while -

Dick Bradfield Leary & [?] [?]
I think I'll wait a day or two -

Just heard that hop [?] Jack warender
that had 48 KBA was operater cochine
& vell dobdy got a Vietnamese Cross of
Gallantry -

26 oct -

TPQ last night uneventful - except I
forgot [?tail] Army so this probably
two 1240# Duds lying somewhere in NVN
Hope that they at least scared somebody -
Slept late - 1315 big CAS/DAS - DCA
29 with [?] Stephenson - ought to be good
if they didn't charge the ordanance

Been thinking about getting to DraKine -
probably leav tomorrow -
Cant -

Good gas - shot down an H-34 about
200 meters west of C-2 (Midway between Cen thien &
Cam Co). We had orbited for 30-40 minutes[?]
& were getting skish - Fiddeled aound swithes
[?] - Finaly got on after an OX-5 flight
LtCol Taber - They were flying a stateside
pattern - High & wide - [?] [?] [?]
We only had two for 3 runs - [?] -Controller
wouldn't let as [?] free along by the [?]
copter - too close - if we'd [?] fuel
could have stand up gotten straightened
out & probably done some real good [?]
as it was I think we did dome good - [?]
home with minimum fuel- [?] - idle let
done - shutdown with 900#

ODO & Fray [?] till midnight then