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snapped him awake, clutching at the M-I rifle lying next to his cot.D
leaped out of his hut and down the slope into the surrounding brush. After finding
some of the defender s and making a futile effort to organize a counterattack,
he and what he could find of th.{ lfled into thejungle." D
With the survivors in hiding-they had no radio-an Air America Helio­
Courier approached for a landing soon after daybreak . Almost too late, the
pilot realized that there was no signal panel to be seen and, as he shoved the
throttle open, the ground below erupted with small arms fire. Back at altitude,
gratefully unscathed, he saw a Bird & Sons Pilatus Porter on the same
approach pattern. He radioed a warning , but the Porter captain. Ernest Brace.
apparently did not hear. Brace flared out for a landing and had reached the end
of the strip when enemy soldiers appeared. He spun the aircraft around and
began to run a gauntlet of small arms fire. The plane faltered and came to a
stop, and Brace, along with three
became prisoners
of the North Vietnamese, not to be released until 1973."
Sol Ernest Brace, A Code 10 Kee 16-17,40-42. The book gives what is presumably]__---'
account of his ownex. Jerience.
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