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 the radio, so we were able to get together (utilizing the
 radio) and found each other there in the middle of the
 night. We sat in one place until the sun came up, and
 saw a hill that was about a quarter of a mile away and
 it looked like we could get some cover up there. We were
 out in the open at our present location and it just
 wasn't a good place to hide. We headed for this hill,
 got up there and hid out for two days. We only had a
 little bit of water, what we carried on our person when
 we flew, and a small survival package called the "hit
 and run" kit that I had grabbed during the ejection. We
 had about four packages of water in there, so our big
 limiting factor was the water There were no streams or
 anything that you can get water from out there.

 Q: Did either of you have any injuries when you bailed out?
 A: I twisted my knee on landing, but it wasn't enough to
 keep me from walking.. just a little bit painful. And
 Colonel Eberly had somehow, either in the ejection or
 afterwards, gotten a cut on the back of his neck that
 had to be bandaged up that first morning. But other than
 that, we were in pretty good shape. We stayed up there
 the whole next day and didn't hear anything. The next
 night after we had been shot down, the guys came up to
 bomb the same target area and as they were going over,
 we got on the radio and were able to make contact with
 one of them. That was the first time they knew for sure
 we were alive because we hadn't had time to make a radio
 call before ejection...and at night people can't really
 see you when you eject so all they knew for sure was that
 we were missing. The second night was the first night
 they knew we were alive. We stayed up there the whole
 next day and didn't hear anything such as: "We'll come
 get you in two hours," or "Yeah, we know you're there,
 it's going to be a long time," or anything. We were out
 of water, so we decided that our only course was to get
 to Syria and maybe we could get some assistance once we
 got over the border. Shortly after sunset we started
 walking. It was fairly uneventful it didn't seem like
 anybody was looking for us. We had to cross one major
 road, by crawling through a culvert underneath it. It
 didn't seem like anybody was tracking us or anything.
 We'd made one contact on the radio which turned out to
 be some friendly airplanes. They had been told to try
 and contact us and they did, but they didn't say any
 thing. I think they were just tying to get confirmation
 that we were alive. About 2 o'clock in the morning, we'd
 been walking for about six hours, and we thought we were
 either over the border or very close to the border. We
 saw a building that looked to be abandoned and thought
 it might have a well or a pump outside it and we could
 get some water. We went too close to the building and

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