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...
Prominent in thecivil rights movementand the struggle against theVietnam War, Peter, Paul and Mary included protest songs in arepertoirethat also featured plaintiveballadssuch as “500 Miles” and children’s songs such as Yarrow’s “Puff (the Magic Dragon),” which often is mistakenly interpre...
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 ...
Not much longer after, that they were carving out the jungle in a place where it would see its most lengthy service: Vietnam. Supplied by the U.S. and now sporting French tri-colours, the A-26 was used heavily in the First Indochina War, and was involved, along with many other airc...