VMA-311 ground personnel hung what they thought were the last bombs (the last bomb was painted red, white and blue and daubed with slogans for the occasion) on the Tomcat Skyhawks and strapped in the last duty Tomcat pilots. Colonel Dean Macho, commander of MAG-12, led the mission, a strike into the Mekong Delta region. Da Nang's ground troops waited anxiously for the Skyhawks to return. They all did. Photograph from Mike Shelton.