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slight: the VC were known to the American intercept
operators and DIF specialists only as
squeaky morse code dits and dashes heard on
their radios. Yet, as the year wore on, the war
seemed to be closing in around the little isolated
direction finding detachments and the main site
at Tan Son Nhut. In August, with perhaps a bit of
dark premonition, Davis wrote to his father of a
nearly successful ambush of two fellow soldiers:
... We became a little more involved in the conflict
yesterday. It looks like the bad guys have
gotten the word to start giving us hell. It breaks
the daily routine even though it could become a
bit dangerous.... I had worked the night before
and I and another fellow came over the road
earlier that morning on our way back to town.
So its just chance that it was Bill instead of us
that got hit. Fortunately, nobody was hurt.: H
(Sl/Sl) The 3rd RRU compound at Tan Son
Nhut was renamed Davis Station in his honor.
(V) South Vietnamese memoria] to f.lllen
Allied cyptologists
memorial in the compound for both Davis and
the Vietnamese technicians killed in the attack.
Every year afterwards, a joint commemoration
service was held to honor the fallen soldiers."
Also, the
Vietnamese SIGINT organization, J7, set up a
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(V) Entrance to Davis Station
CfS//SI) A final note to the Davis affair
occurred the next day. A VC radio station located
in a village in the same area as Davis' ambush
went off the air shortly before a contingent
of two hundred ARVN soldiers
attacked it supported by twen­
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ty U.S. helicopters. The transmitter
was not found; it had been removed
during the attack. Preliminary
interrogation of captured VC suspects
revealed a rather unsettling
item: the night before the attack,
over two hundred VC cadre and
sympathizers had held a rally in the
village to celebrate the destruction
of an ARVN truck the day before. It
was deduced by ASA and NSA that
this truck was Davis' vehicle.
Furthermore, thanks to the equipment
and material they may have
retrieved from the damaged truck, it
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