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Outstanding Red Team !

Absolutely remarkable audio. So glad this was recorded and saved for future generations. Thanks so much

I saw spooky in action, 67-68, it seemed almost every night. Parachute flares, tracers, and 18 years old.

Arizona hasn't been a territory since 1912 . How old are you ?

Hello Steve, Do you remember a Pilot named James Woodward Jr. ?

My step fathers dad was a spooky gunner, saved so many lives

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Saw Spooky in action many times in Vietnam in 67 & 68. It would make the hair stand up on my arms. You knew somebody's ass was grass on the receiving end.

Hell is kinna crazy with a Spooky little ship like u.

These Aircraft are exteamly potent ...even in modern conflict zones like Yemen , Gaza and Southern Lebanon ... **Just 03 Aircraft deployed on 4 hour overlapping missions can patrol at 10,000 feet and provide instant Interdiction with 20mm Gatling Guns and 105mm Recoilless Guns adequate to deal with Pirates , fast attack enemy speedboats , helicopters , artillery , missile launchers , APCs and Infiltrators**.... All with minimum cost , risk and collateral damage especially if paired up with Surveillance Drones ...

Devastating..

My father, then Major Richard Hashimoto, Col. ret. USAF, was assigned to DaNang AB from Nov. 67 - Nov 68, as a flight facilities officer (otherwise known as the Chief of Air Traffic Control Operations (in other words, boss of the tower and radar shack). In a previous career in the AF, was a navigator and radar observer on F-89Ds and EC-121Ds. With the onset of the Tet Offensive, there was an sharp increase in Spooky missions all across Vietnam. The 2nd Air Commando Squadron was also at DaNang with several AC-47Ds. Apparently, a call went out for qualified navigator personnel and Dad answered (or was dragooned, but who knows). I discovered shortly after his death (2022) that his service jacket has an entry for 32.5 combat hours in an AC-47 from January to March 1968. Dad only once referred to being in an AC-47 and that the noise was horrendous. It was typical of Dad to downplay the hazardous duty. Whatever happened, he left Vietnam with a Bronze Star Medal. Thanks to all the pirates that got him home in a World War II cargo/troop carrier reborn as a dragon!

Cone of fire❤

It is so amazing to hear this. My grandfather was a navigator in the Air Force during Vietnam and was placed into a spooky squadron during that time. He talks about it all the time and he loved flying the spooky. He even talks about the pure power of having the minimum lay waste to the jungle. I sincerely appreciate this video, the light it brings to not only my grandfathers service and unit but the light it brings of the little know Spooky gunship is unmatched. Thank you

Happiness is knowing spooky is on your side.

My uncle was a navigator on this aircraft. Jesse, Thomas Rogers.

The first AC 130 😂

The fellow in the photo from 16.16 is my father, Lt David Savage of the Australian SAS (posted to Vietnam 1967 & 1968 initially with the AATV and then later in joint missions with the US within the Mike - mobile strike - Force). He was shot on the evening of August 24 1968 at Doc Lap hence the bandage on his right arm. He didn't relay many stories of his experiences in Vietnam to me or my brother but he did say US military technology was incredible even in the 60's. He said the Montanyards were a willing group of fighters and that Vietnam was an incredibly vicious theatre of war, he definitely returned to Oz with PTSD. He told us that the battle for Duc Lap hung in the balance over several days and that the size of forces the NVA used to encircle Duc Lap made it clear they wanted to overrun the base.

Disgusting when you think about it. Who would want to do that to another human being? Where is the valor in being up there shooting other human beings with that beast? - Brandon Nguyen.

Puff the magic dragon.

I still can't believe this audio every time I hear it. That aircraft commander, Robert Taylor, is my good natured, relaxed grandfather (who I'm named after). He would rarely talk about the details of the sorties he flew. For anyone who is wondering, he survived the war with 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses (1 with V for Valor), and couldn't be prouder of the work he did for the men on the ground.

On the most recent SOGCAST on jocko podcast there’s actually a MACV SOG Green Beret from that night. They were attack by 4-600 NVA sappers and were out numbered 6 to 1 and only sustained 15 total losses compared to hundreds of NVA.

The MACV SOG compound ?? MACV SOG is possibly the greatest warriors of all time. Absolutely fearless men that went on missions with no more than 8 people. One group took on a brigade of 30,000 NVA. If you want to hear stories of these fearless men check out the jocko podcast with John Stryker Meyer !

This was very..very effective !!!

I was there and it was an over glorified piece of junk that shot 500,000 rounds for, maybe, one casualty. It was neat to see tracers at night but that ammo could have been better used almost anywhere. By the way, in WWII 50,000 rounds were used for each casualty.

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Yup the chainsaw sound and red stream. However the VC were pretty good at hit a run. So I think the dirt and bushes took mosts of the hits. I always admired the VC for the punishment that was directed at them. I wouldn't want to be on receiving end of the mini gun or most U S weapons. 68 to 70 for me.

Thank you

C-RAM or CIWS?

In 1987 wow

In Dec 1968 Spooky fired around my Plt all night ⭕️ as We where retrieving the Bodies of a Recon team on Operation Meade River inSide the Hook~~~a Massive NVA Bunker Complex...We used heat Tabs in a little hole dug Out in front of each one of Us so they could see where We where and not turn Us into Swiss Cheese...it was one helluva light show....with Spooky sound Effects that where Amplified too the Max !!! Aye Aye Semper Fi

You stolen , you to dump! You are give back! Thats your Problem! And he said Shut up! 100% Increlable svjat!

I was in Vietnam 1945 and I flew the spooky

#USAF

AC47 vs AK47

Randomly suggested cause guy is from Fairfax VA?

14 million sorties, no way. Thats nearly 2000 a day for 20 years

Spooky, Spectre, and Shadow. C47, AC-117, and AC-130

I flew with all I had on that plain....

And we still lost the police action. All those young men and women killed for what? To prevent the domino effect? And now we give our military weapons to the taliban. Nothing has changed. Unless we fight like we did in WW2 it's the same old same old.

The sound of those guns firing is just mesmerizing

ac130s dad

In Arizona Territory April ‘69. Field Radio operator, not forward observer, but had to direct fire of Spooky Gunship. Not trained to do this but managed to successfully direct fire to help my Marine unit. Bravo, 1/7. Was a most awesome sight with 18,000 rounds per minute coming out of gunship. (Quang Nam province)

I arrived in Vietnam Jan. 1965 and reported to Bien Hoa Airbase. I met my Sgt, and he led me to the Flight line ready pad.. I was shown my assignment. I was shocked, all the way to Vietnam to work on a 30 year old cargo plane a DC-3 (C47) I was told it was a top secret airplane. I giggled and the Sgt. said you are the Crew Chief on the First AC-47 Gunship. He told me you have to keep her ready to fly. At 5 o'clock tonight you will see her in all her glory. As a Crew Chief I had to repair and I kept her flying. We repaired bullet holes, shrapnel damage, and engine overhaul, and repairs etc. I earned the Air Force Commendation Medal for inventing the tool to replace Pushrod seals (leaky bastards) without tearing the whole engine down reducing the down time for the craft. At that time she was called "Puff The Magic Dragon". Went on one mission while I was there awesome piece of Warfare Machine.

And I can tell you from first hand experience that during the seventies this plane was an awesome smuggling plane bringing in thousands and thousands of pounds of cannabis

Greetings from the Ohio Porters.🇺🇸 Man, that sounded like a buzz saw! 😳 You wouldn’t want to stick around if you heard that noise! Jaw-dropping awesome!!😎✌️

my husband did two tours and Nam USMC USMC & he saw Puff aka Spooky many times and he asked the guy next to him that had been in country before what the black cloud was underneath the plane and he said shell casings. Puff the magic dragon AKA call sign spooky

To put it from Tom Clancy - "Spooky's going to work"

Cool...!!