Camp Holloway Discussion Forum Archive 02 - 05/07/01 to 02/28/03

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Dave,

WE did have one thing fall out of the ship. Or should I say dropped. It seems that a couple of our gunners had the day off and had gone to Pleiku to enjoy the sights and visit with the local population. My gunner who will remain nameless had his wallet stolen. So to get even he planned an attack on the market area of downtown.

Taking several rubbers (which were used to cover the end of the barrels of our weapons) we filled them with paint. The army had that heavy lead base paint which could only be removed by sandblasting. You can get almost a quart of paint into one of those things.

As we headed for Dak To we launched our attack. If I can remember right we dropped six of our bombs. Our sighting of the target was second to none. It wasn't until we returned that evening we found out how well we did. Apparently an ARVIN officer and his driver were passing through the market place as our attack began. We had two direct hits. Soon after that was when we started painting the tail numbers on the ships yellow.

They never found out who did it but they did have it narrowed down to the 119th. I wonder how they have written up the court marshall papers on that one?

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