 After dawn on 29 January the low overcast lifted, and fighter-bombers pounded the area to McDade's north, detonating PAVN ammunition and causing large fires.Soon after, McDade's companies, reinforced by 2/12th Cavalry, swept north to eliminate the last PAVN from the hamlet.But the clearing operation took another day, and was completed only when elements of 1/7th Cavalry joined the sweep out of the landing zone.