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Once in Laos, right in the rugged mountains and forests, with a dense air defense system, the Vietcong were so numerous that they did not allow any aircraft to come near the team on the ground. If the aircraft came down, they would shoot, and if it got hit, it had to shoot up to the sky. At that time, I heard the order from OV-10 that all King Bees had to go up to ten thousand feet and stay away to wait. I saw several A-1s taking turns swooping down from above to attack an angle from the northeast to the southwest. When they dived down, they dropped something like a wall of white smoke. Then the A-1s attacked in another direction, creating another wall of smoke perpendicular to the previous wall of smoke. At that time, the King Bees swooped down to extract the team easily because the Vietcong were blinded and could not shoot.
Video Little Saigon TV Interviewed the author (Vietnamese language)
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Next to my jailhouse was a house we named the “elixir-making house of the old lord’s supreme lord.” The reason we named it because there was a second lieutenant chemical officer named Teo, a prison warden, but his daily job was to wear a white blouse, a white cloth cap like a surgeon, and a gas mask. And he would go into that house to cook something. Prisoners must provide firewood for him but only bring the firewood close by, not into the yard. He must bring it in himself. I saw a terrible gray-black smoke coming out of the vents, but I didn’t smell anything. ...
One day, Le Minh met me privately and said, “Buu, let me tell you. I suspect that Teo cooked the bodies of dead American prisoners in that house.”
I asked, “Why do you suspect that?” He said, “They allowed me to pick vegetables nearby. I saw a piece of meat thrown out from inside the front yard. I saw the piece of meat and was so happy that I ran over to pick it up to bring home to cook because I was so hungry. Picking up the piece of meat, I saw yellow hair on its skin, like the arm hairs of Westerners. I was so scared that I returned it to its original place.”