For the second time in two weeks we are scrambled from our bunkers. During the night things have heated up in the valley. Several positions have been probed along with reports of truck convoys again moving along the Plei-Trap road. The early morning flight finds several unhappy campers preparing to make another journal into the valley.

Arriving at Polei-Kleng the personal have already started repairing the damage from yesterday's rocket attack. There are several holes in the runway and a few of the bunkers around resupply have been damaged. As the rest of the flight prepares to start the resupply my ship and one other is sent to LZ Swift to extract the wounded and dead from yesterday's contact.

At LZ Swift we find that the landing pad has been improved and the trees which had caused us problems have been removed. We load the wounded. Gator 834 have the dead. After the flight to LZ Mary Lou we join the rest of the flight.

Task Force Swift will again enter the contact area. The troops are loaded with ammo and know where they are headed. Our first sorties contain water and ammo. As convoys from LZ Mary Lou reach Polei-Kleng we start to deliver new replacements.

Companies Alpha and Charlie of the 1/8th have moved into the area where enemy convoys were heard last night. At YB 852003 Alpha encounters an NVA unit which is dug in and ready to fight. Charlie company which had been moving along a parallel line as Alpha also engages the enemy. Fire fights and contact will continue until late afternoon.

At mid morning TF Swift has again engaged the enemy bunker complex. After thirty minutes they withdraw while artillery is called in. Their fall back line is the bomb crater where we pulled wounded out yesterday. We go in and resupply their ammo and pull the wounded.

Artillery today is very heavy. Support from LZ Swinger, LZ Pause and FSB 20 to the contact areas have us flying big circles in order to avoid the shells. A second attempt is tried by Swift and again the enemy refuses to give in. More artillery is sent to the NVA.

During all of this one of our ships has made an emergency landing at LZ Pause. An enemy round in the compression stage of the engine was the reason. A rigging crew from the 57th AHC was brought in to prepare the bird for its trip home.

A third assault is repelled and the Air Force is brought in with napalm and five hundred pound bombs. By late afternoon the complex is secured. As evening approaches the enemy will start mortar and sniper attacks against the assault troops.

A CH-47 is brought in to lift our wounded bird out of LZ Pause. Word from LZ Mile High is that the hot chow which had been brought in this morning must have been tainted. Forty men are now suffering from food poisoning.

Ten more Americans would be killed today. Another 56 were wounded. A not so fair price to pay for YA 818956. Alpha and Charlie 1/8th would report 4 KIA, 13 WIA and 2 MIA.