AF Form 5, Pilot's Individual Flight Record, Lieutenant Colonel Melvin G. Swanson, November 1970. Every U.S. Air Force aviator's flying time was captured on this form, sortie by sortie: date, aircraft type and tail number, mission symbol, duty position, hours by day, night and instrument conditions, landings, and combat time. Swanson's November 1970 entries record seven sorties in Douglas A-1H, A-1E and A-1J Skyraiders, totaling 18.3 hours of which 17.4 were combat, flown from Operating Location Alpha Alpha at Da Nang, the 56th Special Operations Wing detachment whose Skyraiders supported MACV-SOG reconnaissance teams and led combat search and rescue missions. A handwritten note records that he reported to Reese Air Force Base, Texas on 22 December 1970. His lifetime flying total at the close of the month stood at 3,632.9 hours. Project: 219123