PINK FOUR- USAF 4th AIR COMMANDOS - CHAMPAGNE LADY - Vietnam War
USAF Patch Flight Jacket Patch AC-47 - Douglas Spooky Gunship
GHOST RIDERS - Ghostriders - 4th Special Operations Squadron
Pink Four - Champagne Lady
4th Air Commando Squadron - Vietnam War
GHOSTRIDERS – 4th Special Operations Squadron – USAF – Spooky Gunships
The squadron was activated in August 1965 as the 4th Air Commando Squadron.
Stationed at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Saigon, South Vietnam, it flew night combat missions in South Vietnam manning the Douglas AC-47 Spooky gunship beginning in November 1965.
By year's end, the 4th had flown 277 combat sorties, used 2,458 illumination flares, and expended 137,136 rounds of ammunition in support of friendly positions under attack.
In February 1966, four of the squadron's gunships were moved to Thailand to operate against the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
There they would serve several roles. They were equipped to assume Airborne Command and Control Center duties in lieu of Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft. They both struck and directed forward air control in the Operation Barrel Roll area of Laos. They also hunted supply trucks along the Trail. Between December 1965 and July 1966, they were credited with destroying 243 trucks.
However, they lost four AC-47s and 26 air crew members in the process, as enemy anti-aircraft fire became steadily more effective. The 4th was then assigned solely to defense of hamlets and troops under attack.
Douglas AC-47 Spooky, Magic Dragon - Patch - Vietnam.
Utilsing flares that the aircraft dropped to light up battlegrounds, the AC-47 was a gunship of the USAF operating out of Udorn Air Base Thailand and Tan Son Nhut, Saigon and Nha Trang.
It carried over 25,000 rounds of ammunition delivered across 360 degrees of a combat zone.
The AC-47, Spooky operated in Vietnam from 1964 through 1971.
The Cambodian Air Force continues to operate AC-47 which they have named 'Ghost Planes'.
USAF - Flight Jacket Patch
USAF Patch Flight Jacket Patch AC-47 - Douglas Spooky Gunship
GHOST RIDERS - Ghostriders - 4th Special Operations Squadron
Pink Four - Champagne Lady
4th Air Commando Squadron - Vietnam War
GHOSTRIDERS – 4th Special Operations Squadron – USAF – Spooky Gunships
The squadron was activated in August 1965 as the 4th Air Commando Squadron.
Stationed at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Saigon, South Vietnam, it flew night combat missions in South Vietnam manning the Douglas AC-47 Spooky gunship beginning in November 1965.
By year's end, the 4th had flown 277 combat sorties, used 2,458 illumination flares, and expended 137,136 rounds of ammunition in support of friendly positions under attack.
In February 1966, four of the squadron's gunships were moved to Thailand to operate against the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
There they would serve several roles. They were equipped to assume Airborne Command and Control Center duties in lieu of Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft. They both struck and directed forward air control in the Operation Barrel Roll area of Laos. They also hunted supply trucks along the Trail. Between December 1965 and July 1966, they were credited with destroying 243 trucks.
However, they lost four AC-47s and 26 air crew members in the process, as enemy anti-aircraft fire became steadily more effective. The 4th was then assigned solely to defense of hamlets and troops under attack.
Douglas AC-47 Spooky, Magic Dragon - Patch - Vietnam.
Utilsing flares that the aircraft dropped to light up battlegrounds, the AC-47 was a gunship of the USAF operating out of Udorn Air Base Thailand and Tan Son Nhut, Saigon and Nha Trang.
It carried over 25,000 rounds of ammunition delivered across 360 degrees of a combat zone.
The AC-47, Spooky operated in Vietnam from 1964 through 1971.
The Cambodian Air Force continues to operate AC-47 which they have named 'Ghost Planes'.
USAF - Flight Jacket Patch
USAF Patch Flight Jacket Patch AC-47 - Douglas Spooky Gunship
GHOST RIDERS - Ghostriders - 4th Special Operations Squadron
Pink Four - Champagne Lady
4th Air Commando Squadron - Vietnam War
GHOSTRIDERS – 4th Special Operations Squadron – USAF – Spooky Gunships
The squadron was activated in August 1965 as the 4th Air Commando Squadron.
Stationed at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Saigon, South Vietnam, it flew night combat missions in South Vietnam manning the Douglas AC-47 Spooky gunship beginning in November 1965.
By year's end, the 4th had flown 277 combat sorties, used 2,458 illumination flares, and expended 137,136 rounds of ammunition in support of friendly positions under attack.
In February 1966, four of the squadron's gunships were moved to Thailand to operate against the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
There they would serve several roles. They were equipped to assume Airborne Command and Control Center duties in lieu of Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft. They both struck and directed forward air control in the Operation Barrel Roll area of Laos. They also hunted supply trucks along the Trail. Between December 1965 and July 1966, they were credited with destroying 243 trucks.
However, they lost four AC-47s and 26 air crew members in the process, as enemy anti-aircraft fire became steadily more effective. The 4th was then assigned solely to defense of hamlets and troops under attack.
Douglas AC-47 Spooky, Magic Dragon - Patch - Vietnam.
Utilsing flares that the aircraft dropped to light up battlegrounds, the AC-47 was a gunship of the USAF operating out of Udorn Air Base Thailand and Tan Son Nhut, Saigon and Nha Trang.
It carried over 25,000 rounds of ammunition delivered across 360 degrees of a combat zone.
The AC-47, Spooky operated in Vietnam from 1964 through 1971.
The Cambodian Air Force continues to operate AC-47 which they have named 'Ghost Planes'.
USAF - Flight Jacket Patch