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This was back before the USAF and US Army figured out what a bad idea it was to fire missions while aircraft were in the firebase takeoff pattern.
posted by Cowboy Blob @ 9:20 PM
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3 Comments:
At 2:03 AM,
Anonymous said…
That’s a C-7A Caribou and my dad flew them when he was stationed in Vietnam. Here are more details about this picture that you may find interesting:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/lometa/4126.html
At 9:44 AM,
Cowboy Blob said…
Yeah, I recognized it since we lived at the end of the Seward AFB TN runway when I was a kid...they were so slow, Mom would ask if they were gonna stay for dinner. Dad worked on them and C-130s at Phan Rang and Ton Son Nhut in the mid 60s too.
At 12:50 PM,
Anonymous said…
That is quite a picture.
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