When the assault platoons were approximately 750 yards short of their objective, enemy troops estimated at company strength were seen withdrawing across the positions on the knobs, just ahead of the main objective. Queen called into the 2d Battalion’s Fire Direction Center (FDC) radio net and put some 81mm mortar fire on the objective to hurry the enemy along. At the same time, 2d Battalion notified 2d Ranger Company that it had four P-51s on call, and asked Queen if he could use them. Queen directed them to strafe the back side of Hill 151 and the village behind it. Within a few minutes, the P-51s were screaming over their target, causing Queen to lift the mortar fire for fear it might hit the planes. (See Sketch C) The Company advanced rapidly under this cover, and soon the P-51s had to be called off because their runs were too close to the advancing Rangers. The Tactical Air Control Point (TACP) or Forward Air Controller (FAC) had a little trouble contacting them because he was on low ground and his radio transmissions were masked. The Rangers had their fingers crossed for a while because some remembered the 1949 accidental bombing of Combine II at Eglin AFB, Florida, by B-29s. The company moved over the forward slopes of the hill and cleared it, finding six dead enemy soldiers there. An estimated twenty to thirty enemy soldiers were killed in the combined action this day.