Photo Album '68, Page 36
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Capt. John Joseph "Jack" Burke working on the bunker outside the HMM-364 Ready Room two days before he was killed in the crash of YK-13 on 02-05-68.
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Photo by, Capt. Sidney R. Gale 
Capt. Paul J. "Count" Montague's bird, YK-14  after landing on a fuel bladder he was externall- ing on the Phu Bai perimeter.
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Photo by, Capt. Sidney R. Gale 
Another view of "Count" Montague's YK-14.  Paul was later shot down while serving as a pilot with HMM-164 on March 29, 1968 in the Ashaw Valley, and was a POW for about 6 years.  He survived and returned on the Freedom Flights.
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Photo by, Capt. Sidney R. Gale 
Capt. Sidney R. "Gumbo" Gale standing in a rocket crater in front of the post office the morning after a rocket attack on March 26, 1968.
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Photo by, Capt. Sidney R. Gale 
Phu Bai O'Club after the same rocket attack.  It did not take long to repair the damage and return to a 'full service' club.  The Air Force would have envied our clubs!
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Photo by, Capt. Sidney R. Gale 

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