Dale Hanson

And they said, as fast as you can go.

And so we get to this LZ where a chopper's going to pick us up.

Well, at the same time, we were there, our mic force, our strike force from FOB that's out there with a company, but they're a few miles away from us.

And I was talking to a couple of the guys after the war because what they wanted to do, they're going to bomb it.

And they wanted us out of there, you know, because it was going to be a saturation bomb.

Well, anyway, they told them because they could take a recon team out quite quickly, but they couldn't likewise do that to a company, you know.

So the order that came to them was a maneuver, and I think they said seven clicks fast south, as fast as you can go.

And anyway, talking to the guys afterward, they were going so fast they could hardly breathe.

And about the time they got seven clicks away and we were off in the choppers, 100 B-52s hit the place.

And I didn't know there were that many in existence.

But the word came down, 100 B-52s hit the place.

Holy shit.

And I didn't know we had that many.

Me neither.

And maybe it's hyperbole.

So anyway, we get out and get back to base, and that is the day the siege of Bend Hat ended.

That intelligence flying that we found, and they dropped in all the B-52s, that ended the siege at Bend Hat.

Wow.

Interesting, yeah.

Wow.