A Green Beret's True Story of His Jack Lawson with Sully de Fontaine

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18 Tmbwfs’’’’’’’’’ (t!Xiffm Wheel, not dancing in celebration but their bodies in pieces surrounding it in grotesque lifeless poses, lying where they were brutally killed in the village streets. Breaking from a trance, Sully laid his submachine gun on the pedestal of the Slaver’s Wheel. He cupped his mouth with both hands to amplify his voice as he yelled in all directions alternately in English and French, “I am French-Canadian and here to evacuate you. Show yourselves!” After another fifteen minutes of his pleas going unanswered, he radioed Jake One to land the Beaver and pick him up. Frenchy had been given the wrong village name or those who had radioed for help had their radio destroyed, had fled or had been killed. Within a few minutes, the Beaver landed. As they took off, Sully radioed Frenchy. “Robert Four, this is Robert One, come in.” “Go ahead, Robert One.” “Just left Inkisi and found no one there. Radio them again to confirm their location.” “Roger that. I’ll call you back.” “Jake, circle around at tree top level moving out from the center of the village. Maybe we can spot them from the air.” Sully told the pilot. “Got it, Robert.” Jake One answered over the headset and for the next twenty minutes they flew in an increasing spiral trying to spot the refugees from the air. Soon, Frenchy radioed Sully back. “Robert One, come in.” “Go ahead Robert Four,” Sully answered. “I can’t raise them on the radio. They definitely told me Inkisi, Robert.” “Roger. Call me if you hear from them again.” “Roger that,” Frenchy said as he signed off. “Jake, head back to Brazzaville.”
Silence in Inkisi “Gotcha. Turning to a Brazzaville heading now, Robert.” As the plane banked to turn on its new heading for Brazzaville in the neighboring French Congo, Sully had a clear view of the village. He looked intently one final time for movement. Just hoping that he could spot whoever had radioed them. He saw nothing. But the thought of that Slaver’s Wheel suddenly flashed through his mind. What had started for Sully as a classified humanitarian rescue mission would change the course of history in the largest country in Africa and help decide the Cold War, decades before it would have come to a conclusion. 19
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