Our target for the day was a bridge at Bac Ninh on the northeast railroad. Ingress could be along the mountainous coast, and the only heavy defenses were along the railroad itself and in the flat-lands where the narrow valley that harbored the rail line opened up on the delta. I was flying wing on Maj. Bill Loyd, with the new assistant operations officer, Maj. Ken Frank, flying as number three and Karl Richter as four. Our load was five Mk.83 low-drag bombs. Rain the night before hinted that the monsoon was overhead and the only weather factor was going to be local. The target area several hundred miles north of us would be reasonably clear.
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