I was in country Vietnam 1967, and 1968. More than once we heard the Gooney Birds arrive on station and fire their guns. The sound was just like a chain saw only 50 times louder. At dark the line of fire looked just like a red finger coming down outta the sky, destroying very thing in it's path. I was sure glad I was not on the receiviing end of Puff The Magic Dragon. Thank you
And when you think back about seeing those steady streams of light coming down, from the sky, but in reality those were little red blips, and inbetween each little blip, was 5 rounds. Amazing, even after all these years!
You know it sad most people don't know about AC-47 AKA spooky. They mostly know of it later generation the AC-130, this plane pretty much saved a lot of boys, when they were in the shitter and was crazy dangerous, being that you flying what is very much an outdated plane against forces who can use a homing smile and AA batteries.
Whoever was the pilot who flew Spooky 29 when I was the Bn. RTO at Patrol Base Diamond III in April of '69... You promised me a beer at the "Spook House" after you tangled with that large NVA convoy...REMEMBER ??? Its been 50 years, buddy...where's my beer??? YALE SPADES was my callsign.
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.
literally the only audio of a spook firing i can find
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No man search on youtube the tittle "FUERZA AÉREA COLOMBIANA // BASLER AC-47T FANTASMA // AVION FANTASMA // AC-47T FANTASMA" In Colombia are using this Spook for internal war against "Las FARC" In the video that I tell you to look for, you will be able to see the plane in action.
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.
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
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)
@@Jimpiedepimpie Politically yes. The military did it's job, the politicians called it and pulled them and decided to not honor promises made to allies.
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.
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
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
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!
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 ...
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.
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.
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!!😎✌️
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
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.
Yep. 20 years in Vietnam for the baby boomer generation, 20 years in Afghanistan for the millennial generation. Wonder what will be the next country we try to fix.
I was in country Vietnam 1967, and 1968. More than once we heard the Gooney Birds arrive on station and fire their guns. The sound was just like a chain saw only 50 times louder. At dark the line of fire looked just like a red finger coming down outta the sky, destroying very thing in it's path. I was sure glad I was not on the receiviing end of Puff The Magic Dragon. Thank you
And when you think back about seeing those steady streams of light coming down, from the sky, but in reality those were little red blips, and inbetween each little blip, was 5 rounds. Amazing, even after all these years!
Hey thanks for everything You and Your Comrades did 👍😎
God bless you and thank you for your service! You guys were kicking ass three years before I was born
You know it sad most people don't know about AC-47 AKA spooky. They mostly know of it later generation the AC-130, this plane pretty much saved a lot of boys, when they were in the shitter and was crazy dangerous, being that you flying what is very much an outdated plane against forces who can use a homing smile and AA batteries.
@Yuck Foutube and? We wouldn’t now😭🤣
Whoever was the pilot who flew Spooky 29 when I was the Bn. RTO at Patrol Base Diamond III in April of '69... You promised me a beer at the "Spook House" after you tangled with that large NVA convoy...REMEMBER ??? Its been 50 years, buddy...where's my beer??? YALE SPADES was my callsign.
I'm not Spooky29 brother, but I would be more than happy to buy you a beer or twelve. Thank you for your service.
I agree with StL Busker! I would like to do the same brother!!!!
So you don’t consider him being dead? I don’t believe you I’m sorry chuck
You guys are heroes, Thank you for your bravery during that tough time. I will buy you dinner or beer or whatever lol.
My grandpa said he’d rather owe it to ya than cheat ya out of it 😂😂
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.
He’s a bad ass. If he’s still kicking let him know he’s appreciated, I know nam vets got the raw end of the deal.
The Grandfather of Ac-130
The thing you need to fear is Spooky itself and the Ac-130 the angel of death
literally the only audio of a spook firing i can find
No man search on youtube the tittle "FUERZA AÉREA COLOMBIANA // BASLER AC-47T FANTASMA // AVION FANTASMA // AC-47T FANTASMA" In Colombia are using this Spook for internal war against "Las FARC" In the video that I tell you to look for, you will be able to see the plane in action.
The sound of those guns firing is just mesmerizing
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.
My brother was Mike Brymer.
He was a gunner on one of those 1st Spookys.
That's a cool thing to be able to say you did... Thanks for your service sir
Welcome home. Spooky always saved the day. Your work means a lot.
Awesome you invented a tool to save man hours. Interesting story
Welcome home
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
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)
May be the very best video, I have ever listen to! Love when Americans put their life before other Americans! God bless brotherhood!!
My father in law is the CAPT Bob Taylor in this video. True American Hero!
Didn't they lose?
@@Jimpiedepimpie Politically yes. The military did it's job, the politicians called it and pulled them and decided to not honor promises made to allies.
Happiness is knowing spooky is on your side.
My dad was a crew chief in 1966 pleiku Vietnam spooky operations center Highland-
We need one of these over Seattle.
Could have used Two at the Capital on Jan 6th!
@@351linzdoctor 📺 🐑
Yeah don’t think you paid attention to what our country was founded upon if you think we should be using military equipment to massacre civilians haha
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.
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
I wonder what that does to the environment when it rains
@@CoercedJab who cares??
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
Cool to have a recording from that far back.
the 8 thumbs down are VC relatives
Ok thats just straight up disrespectful
My guy the Vietnamese don't like Americans already. Don't add to it they have delicious food
My uncle was a navigator on this aircraft. Jesse, Thomas Rogers.
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!
Correction…. 4th SOS DaNang AB
@@stevenhashimoto4472Wow, you got some vermin in your bloodline there.
14 million sorties, no way. Thats nearly 2000 a day for 20 years
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 ...
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.
Randomly suggested cause guy is from Fairfax VA?
no thumbs down. impossible to dislike this beautiful thing. i bet even a10 vids have more dislikes than this 😆
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
I was in Vietnam 1945 and I flew the spooky
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!!😎✌️
Inbred flyover 😂
Spooky, Spectre, and Shadow. C47, AC-117, and AC-130
There was also a AC-119K Stinger which was an upgrade of the shadow!
I flew with all I had on that plain....
C-RAM or CIWS?
To put it from Tom Clancy - "Spooky's going to work"
Puff the magic dragon.
Devastating..
In 1987 wow
Arizona hasn't been a territory since 1912 . How old are you ?
Cone of fire❤
Salute
My step fathers dad was a spooky gunner, saved so many lives
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The first AC 130 😂
ac130s dad
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
Precision airstrike be like brrrrrrrrr
Ok i shant speak
You stolen , you to dump!
You are give back!
Thats your Problem!
And he said Shut up! 100%
Increlable svjat!
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.
Yep. 20 years in Vietnam for the baby boomer generation, 20 years in Afghanistan for the millennial generation. Wonder what will be the next country we try to fix.
@@MadMaxBS Russia
#USAF
AC47 vs AK47