The a/c BTW that Susanna refers to is the AC-47D "Spooky" that was a CAS a/c in Vietnam. It was a mod of the C-47 Skytrian with 3x 7.62mm miniguns all on the left-side of the a/c for aerial fire support. The first a/c were FC-47s under the radio call sign "Puff" a...
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee. We’ve heard a rumor that the title was the nickname for a gunship used in the Vietnam War and that the song was banned in Singapore and Hong Kong because they thought it contained ...
In 1943, with the U.S. deep in World War II, Army Air Corps Major Paul “Pappy” Gunn unknowingly laid the seeds of what would become the gunship, when he added four .50 caliber machine guns to the nose of his squadron’s A-20 Havoc light bombers. Using them as strafers, he soon...