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puff the magic dragon

I took these in 1968. The airbase next to us had an Air commando squadron. One night they told us that VC were crossing the river and they sent up three Puffs. To see and hear those things sounds and looks like Victory.
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I came close to flying on Puff(call sign SPOOKY). In 1967 I put in a request for flight engineer school. At the same time I put in a voluntary request for Nam. I got orders to report for AC-47 school,which was the c-47 gunship. My Air Force boss was on the same orders. He got them cancelled. He didn`t want to fly, much less do it in Nam. I then got orders for C-7A Caribou school. Racked up a thousand hours on them in Nam. I`m sure we got shot at more on the Caribous, as Charlie didn`t want to incur the wrath of Spooky when he was already hosing them down. I`ve sat on the PSP many a night watching Spooky hose `em down around our perimeter. Some of them did get shot down, though.
 
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