As part of Detachment B52 Delta's Reconnaissance TEAM 6, SSgt. CHARLES V. NEWTON, Sgt. CHARLES F. PREVEDEL, SP4 DOUGLAS E. DAHILL and three (3) unidentified Vietnamese personnel were inserted into Quang Nam Province in South Vietnam.

The team reported it made enemy contact. Via radio, Team 6 reported it was continuing its patrol.

Team 6 made its scheduled morning radio contact and reported its position. At 206 hours, it reported to Control and Command that it was in a stream bed and had been hit hard. It requested air strikes. The Team's location was in Thua Thien Province, 9 miles from Laos. A Forward Air Controller (FAC) sent into the area was unable to make radio contact with the team. At 1400 hours, thunderstorms in the area prevented the insertion of a relief force.

A "BDA" (Bomb Damage Assessment) Team was inserted to search for Team 6. The BDA Team encountered Viet Cong personnel wearing tiger striped fatigues and bearing rifles and grenades of the type which had been used by Team 6. The BDA Team made a thorough search of the stream bed and surrounding area, which yielded no trace of Team 6. Numerous air and ground searches of Team 6 evasion route were conducted without positive result.

A Viet Cong reported that he had seen two U.S. POWs in Quang Nam province (exact location unspecified). The report was correlated to SSgt. Newton and Sgt. Prevedel on the basis of time, location and compatability of the physical descriptions. (No information has surfaced about Dahill).