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Page 12A THE BATTALION MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1978 the world Bodies ofU.S. pilots begin final flight home United Press International HANOI, Vietnam — From the field of their last battle, the remains of 11 American fliers lost in the Vietnam War have begun their journey home. Eight U.S. Congressmen and 16 U.S. servicemen bringing the bodies home tended the 11 two- foot-wide metal boxes like treasure chests. They took them from the Vietnamese Communists Saturday at the deserted end of a runway, swaddled the boxes in American flags and nested them in a Starlifter hearse plane for the final flight. No bands played. No guns sa luted. Rep. G. V. “Sonny” Montgom ery, D-Miss., chairman of the con gressional delegation that had come to help make a peace at the end of the war, stood with right hand on heart and tried to put it into words. He looked at the boxes of the fliers. “We are going home,” he said. The gray clouds shattered with thunder across rice paddies and up Thud Ridge, the mountain range so-called by U.S. fliers because it was the anti-aircraft gauntlet they had to run to hit the field, named Phuc Yen in war, but which is now Hanoi’s version of an international airport. It comes complete with an empty terminal the size of a motel lobby. The 11 boxes joined four coffins put aboard the C141 an hour earlier in Vientiane, Laos. Montgomery’s delegation had come to Vietnam, then Laos, to press the search for Americans still listed as missing in action and to scout for Congress and the White House the possibility of improving U.S. relations with the Communists of Hanoi and Vientiane. 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