{"id":57510,"date":"2015-01-07T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57510"},"modified":"2015-01-07T16:06:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T21:06:54","slug":"abandoned-in-hell-the-radio-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57510","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned in Hell; the radio traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57512\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57512\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AC130u-spooky-gunship.jpg\" alt=\"AC130u-spooky-gunship\" width=\"940\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AC130u-spooky-gunship.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AC130u-spooky-gunship-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AC130u-spooky-gunship-500x229.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AC130u-spooky-gunship-630x290.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AC130u-spooky-gunship-315x145.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The other day, I wrote a little about Bill Albracht and his experiences at Firebase Kate. So, yesterday, I put the two files that I have of the radio traffic and put them on YouTube. The first video is of the conversations between Bill (callsign Chickenhawk) and Al Dykes (callsign Spooky 41) the Spooky gunship pilot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/nwfdailynews\/obituary.aspx?pid=173095698\">who passed away recently<\/a>, during the early hours of October 31, 1969 while Al poured Spooky&#8217;s gunfire through the darkness on the NVA who had surrounded the base.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LqYyucC6hcI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The second video is the radio traffic on November 2, 1969 when Captain Albracht was leading his small force seven miles to the nearest camp through the jungle and 6000 NVAs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RjOlEUQrQJw?list=UUn4HApqQ-6DCn494cekeorA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like me and you gave your hearing in service to our country, you&#8217;ll probably want to use the transcript to follow along. You can download the Word file here;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57511\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57511\">Transcript of Tapes provided by Al Dykes<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;ve missed the other conversations we&#8217;ve had about Bill Albracht and Firebase Kate, here&#8217;s the first we had in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55790\">October<\/a> and the one we had on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57467\">Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong> we just got word that for those of you lucky enough (?) to live in the Chicago area, Bill Albracht has scheduled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abandonedinhell.com\/events\/\">two book signing events<\/a> on the 5th and 7th of February. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I wrote a little about Bill Albracht and his experiences at Firebase Kate. &hellip; <a title=\"Abandoned in Hell; the radio traffic\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57510\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abandoned in Hell; the radio traffic<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}