I
had one sortie where we had to recover and rearm 20 min after TO from
DaNang.

Average sortie length was probably 2.5 hours or so. Don't forget we got to
work a little faster than you did so there was more opportunity to fly more
missions. Paul Had a total of around 30 months in SEA as opposed to my 20.


Reminds me of the Battle of the Bulge. We were opening our bomb bay doors as
our wheels came up.


Throw in nightly ricket and mortar attacks and you have the picture attack.
The one time I wasn't ashamed to admit I was scared was taxiing out at DaNang
at night with 6000# of bombs and 18,000# of fuel when the rockets started
hitting the taxiwayand apron.