 On April 00 and 00, 0000 with B/000 0st Cav, 0rd Bde (Sep) I flew flight lead, call sign Yellow One reinforcing AN LOC with ARVN troops. We did this on and off for two days. We were a flight of 0 UH0's with gun support from F/00 Blue Max. We say many Russion tanks and other antiaircraft weapons. One of our first missions were to insert troops at the polo field. We flew in very low level taking fire from the old rice mill and the plantation. We began landing at the polo field and began receiving mortar and artillery fire, some airbursts right in front of us. We ent back and forth several times that day. We had several aircraft shot up but the pilots returned to Bien Hoa and returned in flyable aircraft. We lost 0 cobra I know as he stayed on stationed to long covering us. I followed him back to the staging area and he ran out of fuel on the runway, slide in and rolled over. Both pilots OK. I think the back seat pilot had been wounded in the leg. One day we were tasked to help pick up the MACV Advisors/Special Forces who were trapped in underground bunkers. The plan was the Air Force was going to drop bomblets with a knockout gas in them. We were to "swoop" in flying with our protective masks on and picks them up. The bombs were dropped but it didn't seem to do the job as we took very heavy fire going in and had to abort. I later learned that OH0 pilot who was following them men once they started to E&E out ended up picking them up in very dramatic fashions putting himself I great peril. I beleive he was awarded the MOH for his action. During those days we also lost another Blue Max cobra to anticraft fire but somehow even being cut in two pieces were able to successfully crash land and walked away from it. Reply 