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Del Bumann deros

“My 21st birthday. Am with C Btry, 1/11th Artillery and we are out in the field at a place called Gaio Duc?  Earlier in the week we did an airmobile with the guns.  Flew us out at dusk and fired all night and flew back the next day.”

Intial contact and tiger scout recognizes one of the bodies and warns of probable large force in area.

At 2:30 am Delta’s night location comes under intense attack.

9 killed and 23 wounded our of 52 men engaged in the fight.

“The Vietnamese are such little people, and they will steal anything not nailed down.  About 3 days ago the VC blew up a couple of bridges between here and our base camp, so they have been flying in our supplies.”

“Showed us a movie on the wall of a building, “”The battle of the Bulge””, just what we need, a war movie.  Shold be going to Dong Tam in a week or so.  All we do is eat, sleep (?) and shoot.”

“Move out tomorrow to a new position.  Hot and humid, working on my tan.”