European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1965 bul Long sough i brother is dead the stars and stripes Page 3 californian freed front Jungle prison sah10n a Don Dawson Block Viet Cong search is the Viet Cong lectured him for his Foolhardy then told him they would tend his Brothers grave and give Back his remains when the War was they gave him the flying Vest they Cyga said his brother wore the Day his army spotter plane crashed into 111 Jungles of zone after four months of Captivity when his own life Hung in the they told him to for Donald Charles a 28yearold tuna Fisherman from Costa it was the end of the do Yiu think there is any More i can do he asked As he recovered from a Gruel Ling three Day hike Back to government they said if Don was alive they would take me to but that he was i want to go Home Tell dans wife Arlene and the kids that i did All i and then pick up the threads of my disappeared Dawson 27yearold Daniel disappeared on a Mission Over the comm Nis controlled Jungle North of Blyn Hoa on Donald came to Virt Nam last Decem Ber to find his brother or recover his for months he littered the Jungle with leaflets offering re wards for hitting dead end after dead he decided on one last desperate Gamble to penetrate the Viet Conn throw himself on the mercy of the guerrillas and find the a prot to 21venrnld Vietnam use French College Colette went along As his she also was imprisoned hut was released and returned with she was Iii and was hnnllali7ed the Viet Cong were furious with without permission they demanded to know Why i dared enter their territory without Dawson a re haired he was Pate from months in his Jungle prison and thin from the walk Back hut otherwise i told them my Story and gave them my including letters from my wife and my brother Dannys they hardly glanced at they Laid they had their own methods Klinkm was i stays As Toto plans Camp but brought in and Vii of checking my Dawson when they blindfolded us and led us off into that thick and later revealed to us their hidden Little my heart he said i would All i had done end up in thai Little hut where there was never any Sun would i have to wait there until the War was Over the Viet Cong hardly spoke to miss when she Fel i with fever soon after they reached the a doctor and a nurse tended her 24 hours a but they we rent they distrusted us and distrusted he just As they distrusted they told me thai i a probably playing some kind o he noticed in Addallo to his own prison hut and to adjoining it occupied by about 1 South vietnamese soldiers there were several Solhei through the tangled re eventually discover these were occupied american them a few times in the Dos sometimes wearing Tel army other i by in Raj he saw Donald Dawson of Costa shows photo of her who turned the Viet Cong while searching for his brother with Dawson ure her children and do sons ills brother in a month for his Dawson enough to buy tobacco and tin occasional piece of that was really getting paid by the Viet he i think the american prisoners were also Piid for their our food was As the weeks wore the Viet Cong gradually unfolded the Story of his they said his plane had been shot Down in the Region of the and the wreckage had been used to make weapons and Kitchen died in crash his brother had died in the and Hud been properly he was we do not hate american i or the american peo i Dawson said he was told we hate your Lead jars because they Are misleading eventually they brought Daw san the flying Vest which they said his brother had everyone in the Camp Hud including Dawson he was nursed Buck to hut his interpreter remained Dawson there was no around Only that impenetrable i knew that to escape would either to to be caught again or to then he and Colette were told they could go several guards were assigned to they were blindfolded and left their Jungle prison after four months of the prisoners cheered As t he and i waved Back at Dawson said the Viet Cong did not mistreat him or even Cross examine chill Lar experience the Small group Hud one chill no experience before reaching the Friendly Village of thai a air the joking is out of this world space talk starts at scratch spotter plane along a track and into the in in a few several sky Raider bombers zeroed in on the place the group had been and dropped i had mixed feelings about Houston a gemini 5 astronauts Charles Conrad and Gordon Cooper had thy beards wednesday and Onrad said he should have brought along some hair Here is a portion of the american space twins conversation Wilh Mission control communicator James Midi Voltl Midi Volt is your Beard getting itchy yet Conrad Mcdivitt did you take any curlers along to curl ii Conrad we should Conrad All the sen sors Are itching worse than the when Conrad spotted the air Craft Carrier Lake chump Aln the vessel on which or made his first Carrier aniline As a Pilot the sex Chantry went this Way Conrad Hes at 12 Oclock can sen him bigger n Heck i we got him in sight this Midi Volt i knew an old Carrier Pilot could find the As the spacecraft approached the California coast in the gemini control joke with the astronauts Abou breakfast Cooper Hes making the Coffee Mcdivitt very were those scrambled eggs or Over Cooper they were Over Mcdivitt How is it just depends on your Dawson villagers at thai Hung Wel is q Cook Cooper Hes a pretty Good the earthly problem of housekeeping confronted the astronauts earlier and this is for some reason we Are having trouble one Guy bothers the other Guy when Fie does is what it amounts Dawson they had befriended him in the months before he was he bade them Farewell and Rode a bus to won Conrad and Mission control had o say about control told Conrad that an upcoming lest would Costa Mesa in Costa Dawson wife Mission control did you have a Chance to try the second illumination rendezvous test or did you cancel those out during the Conrad were not concerned about just want to emphasize its so darn quiet in the Cabin that when one Guy its so in so the children Are so she said she had no not a word from him since Conrad let me we had quite a bit to a Guy docs anything it makes quite a bit of the children Are waiting for him to come Home right time we got done control you time an air plane files it was getting sounding better All the they is that dad to late you must like it Mission control that no Conrad were children Are 7 and May reschedule it or we to oscars owner Lias Beaker full London a the trouble with Oscar is that Hes far too so Oscar must Oscar is a 2hyearold presumed owned by Elizabeth lie whistles and but the real Troube is his its a most terrible said Mother of five he barks like a he stayed two weeks with someone who had a Dachshund and caught the habit he ate a Pic Ture so was not invited Gordon said she bought Oscar As a pet for her they stood the she while living in the now Treyve moved to a Lon Don apartment and the noise is too when he cries or shouts 1 dont know whether its him or one of the Gordon when he swears he says which he picked up from me is a mild swear word in some times used by Prince Philip or something a bit he laughs like the cleaning whistles like a boy after and when my husband puts on Oscar warbles in a Gordon said she has had More than 100 offers for Oscar putting a Small and in the agony column of the London it read what offers Tor varied vicarage unsuitable