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 Posted: Dec 27, 2006 - 06:33 PM
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For those of you (if any and I know there are a few still around)...I thought this might spark a memory or two of days gone pass with an older fighter that also kicked butt in its day.
Photo are from Danang, Vietnam..1971 and 1972, back when I was just a 19 year old kid learning aircraft systems (crew doggen) and how to be lucky enough to dodge rockets and snipers
You guys heard about "Puff" didn't ya.....here is a few photos of it
Then the Wild Boars (F4's)
Gun Fighter Village (366th) |
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Meathook
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Posted: Dec 27, 2006 - 06:38 PM
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A few more for your enjoyment...time sure flies....
Our patch 366th Gunfighters - Phantom
A little Door Gunner time.....Jolly Green Giant (Mini Gun)
Soon to be a Hot LZ....nasty fire fight that day, how I lived is still hard to figure out |
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Posted: Dec 27, 2006 - 09:35 PM
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Excellent pics of "Rocket City" Meathook! Quonset Huts and Hooches...man, that's old school! Puff the Magic Dragon looked mean, just sitting there! Did you get a ride with them?
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Posted: Dec 28, 2006 - 03:05 AM
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Not in the C-47 (Puff, wish I had) but yes to the Jolly Green and UH1B/C's manning the M-60 or Mini Gun (depending what the aircraft had on board).
Sometimes as I look back and see me, it is hard to understand how it all took place and so long ago, to still be here and see it happening all over again in other parts of the world knowing my children are now involved...I sometimes feel it was for nothing but I really know better.
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Posted: Dec 28, 2006 - 11:45 AM
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Very interesting pictures! Keep'em coming!
On the Puff (AC-47) how many miniguns were? Those 3 on port side, and nothing on the other side? |
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Posted: Dec 28, 2006 - 03:51 PM
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| The ones I saw did but I had heard some were configured differently, it was a flying gun basically...I never got to ride in one, I bet it was noisy too |
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