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South Vietnam: Type: Air force: Role: Air defense Air warfare: Size: 63,000 personnel (at height) 2,075 aircraft (at height) Part of: Republic of Vietnam Military Forces: Garrison/HQ: Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Saigon: Nickname(s) KLVNCH (VNAF in English) Motto(s) Tổ Quốc — Không Gian ("Fatherland — Space") March: Không quân Việt Nam ...
Douglas C-54D in 1975. Caravelle in 1962. Boeing 727-100 in 1971. Boeing 707-300 in 1974. Air Viet Nam's initial fleet consisted of five Cessna 170s, Douglas DC-3s and Douglas DC-4s with the airline flying mainly between cities and towns throughout Vietnam.
United States Air Force AC-47 at Nha Trang Air Base in South Vietnam. In August 1964, years of fixed-wing gunship experimentation reached a new peak with Project Tailchaser under the direction of Captain John C. Simons.
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The Air Force Historical study: Air Force Units in South Vietnam, 1965-1973, was compiled by Colonel John Schlight, Office of Air Force History, 1980. The list is in chronological order by date beginning in June 1965 and ending in March 1973.
The A-37 Dragonfly was a small but capable attack bomber. USAF. Henry Le remembers everything about his last morning in Vietnam. Then a 22-year-old second lieutenant in the South Vietnamese...
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Four C-47s, the SC-47 variant, were part of the Air Commando FARMGATE detachment which deployed to South Vietnam in November 1961. During the Vietnam War, C-47s served as designed and also as the first gunship-the AC-47 or "Puff the Magic Dragon," which was fitted with 7.62 mm miniguns.
Mar 16, 2021 · Above the Ardennes, American paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division jump from C-47s on March 14, 1945. The onset of WWII saw the last civilian DC-3s built in early 1943. Most were pressed into ...
