Yesterday morning, as I had my first cuppa, I turned on the tube (it was pre-tuned to A&E Channel, and History in the Classroom was on...) the first thing I saw was a huge blast and fireball, then a shot of the Camp Holloway Flight Operations Quonset, and the narrator referred to the infamous sapper attack which took seven or eight of our Brothers, and injured 250 or so, all perpetrated by VC in strengths reportedly between 30 and 300. (All these numbers vary according to numerous sources.)

I then went to Grubfish's site and looked at the 1965 summary, and read that 119th and 52nd Airlift Platoon gunships went out and located a large group of suspected participants of the attack, and apparently 28 were killed, and more wounded.

The following day, 8 Feb 65, Johnson ordered the start of Rolling Thunder, the massive (but woefully intermittent) B52 raids on the North.

As I perused the '65 history of 119th, I saw also that on July 16th (my 18th birthday, in Canada, visiting my Mom's people, and enroute from my Dad's last overseas tour in Germany, back to
El Paso, where I immediately registered for the draft), the first use of B52s in direct support of US ground troops occurred in the Mang Yang.

In honored memory of our Lost, a crisp Salute.