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No M1s but I am home sick and board

Posting photos I feel are not seen much

U.S. door gunners in H-21 Shawnee gunships look for a suspected Viet Cong guerrilla who ran into a foxhole from the sampan boat on the Mekong Delta river bank. January 17, 1964.

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Flying low over the jungle, an A-1 Skyraider drops two 500-pound bombs on a Viet Cong held position. December 26, 1964.

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A 40mm gun crew of the U.S.HORNET firing during Task Force 58’s raid on Japan. February 16, 1945.

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A US Army Chinook helicopter prepares to lift a smaller Huey UH-ID to a rear base for repairs, Chu Lai, Vietnam. April 27, 1969.

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Confederate Soldiers stand next to their 13-inch mortars at the South end of Battery No. 4. Yorktown, Virginia. May, 1862.

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A U.S. Marine CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter comes down in flames after being hit by enemy ground fire during Operation Hastings, just south of the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam, July 15, 1966. The helicopter crashed and exploded on a hill, killing one crewman and 12 Marines. Three crewman escaped with serious burns.

[browningautorifle]

All just as good...

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U.S. Air Force bombs create a curtain of flying shrapnel and debris barely 200 feet beyond the perimeter of South Vietnamese ranger positions defending Khe Sanh during the siege of the U.S. Marine base, March 1968

U.S. Air Force bombs create a curtain of flying shrapnel and debris barely 200 feet beyond the perimeter of South Vietnamese ranger positions defending Khe Sanh during the siege of the U.S. Marine base, March 1968

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Pilot ejects from his F1 jet, 1962

I am thinking to low to survive

[mmppres]

wow thanks for being board an sharing these pictures

[browningautorifle]

1919A6, something you don't see every day...

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1919A6, something you don't see every day...

Yes I felt that one was odd

[browningautorifle]

Here's more on the crash above... Apparently he did survive...“Test pilot George Aird ejected from his English Electric Lightning F1 aircraft at a fantastically low altitude in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

“George was a test pilot with the De Havilland Aircraft. He was on finals for an emergency landing following a fire about 15 miles from Hatfield. At about 10 seconds from touchdown, at about 100 ft, the aircraft suddenly pitched nose up and, since there was no response to the controls, he ejected. The aircraft crashed on the airfield, broke up and caught fire.”

http://www.rafjever.org/118sqnper002.htm

Apparently as a sideline, no part of the closed airfield now exists, except a couple of buildings. The airfield was destroyed and developed. Some of the open area was used for the sets of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers.

[Bob Womack]

Whew. Home to the family.

Bob