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Where you in Vietnam during January through May 1969? The museum has various radio transmission excerpts of combat missions of the 71st SOS in Vietnam and we have listed many of the call signs involved in those missions, on ground and in the air. If you were part of any of those missions and know who these call signs represent, please contact the museum as we would like your personal recollections for our historical file and possible use on the web site. Any donations of photographs and artifacts for that time would be great assets for the museum. The call signs may not be spelled correctly as they were transcribed from the actual Shadow Gunship radio transmissions. Vietnam Missions Call Signs during January through May 1969: The Shadow Gunships calls signs in these radio transmissions were Shadow 78, Shadow 76, Shadow 45, Shadow 46, Shadow 63 and Shadow 47. The 71SOS AC-119G Gunships were all designated as "Shadow". Other 1969 Call Signs: Coal Mine 14, Flaxen Recall, Raider 23, Lofty Stylist, Bolo Swimmer, Painful Chain, Black Arrow, Black Arrow Big Daddy, Cement Canoe 41, Nitrate Bunker, Black Pony, Carbon Napkin, Haboo or Habu, Hawk, Gravel 47, Swanee Target, Jagged Chunk, Fuzzy Leftist, Patriot Pealess, Ferndale, One Five on the ground talking to Shadow 45 (note: One Five with within 20 meters of Charlie during this radio exchange), Six Zero in helicopter, with KIA's on board under fire talking to Shadow 76. If you can help us, contact the museum through this web site E-mail or send written correspondence to our mailing address. We are also looking for donations of Vietnam U.S. military grid maps used in 1969. Some of the grid coordinates of the area of operations we are looking for are (Are you ready to copy?) 425-074, 088-475, 095-477, 573-965, 572-963, 572-960 and 568-958. Shadow 77 Crew pictured here.
This photo is from Robert Branscomb, crew member of Shadow 77. In the photo from left to right are Major Thomas H. Cougill(P), Maj. Paul Maxwell (C/P), Capt. John McGary (Nav/NOS), Capt. James Davis (NOS/Nav), SSgt. Bart H. Dye (F/E), SSgt. Robert Branscomb (I/O), SSgt. Thomas Newbold (A/G), Sgt. Russell Steffensmeier (A/G). Click on photographs for full size viewing and scroll on the larger photos
71st SOS Glossary of Terms in Vietnam
1000th mission for 71st SOS "A" Flight, Nah Trang AFB Vietnam. Photo by USAF Det.13, 600th Photo Squadron AAVS, May 1969. Lower left to right: Colonel John W. Lewis, Lt Colonel Edmon C. Tucker, Captain Bill Scanlon, Sgt. Bernie Westendorf. Top left to right: Sgt. Phil Bender, Captain Bill Withuhn, Sgt. Clay Hedge. Phil Bender.
On the way to Vietnam. LTC Pyle on board a C141 Starlifter talking to the pilot with the navigator in the foreground.
Bill Hamilton Thanks to Captain Bill Hamilton for many of the 71st SOS photographs.
Captain Bob Reess in the cockpit of a 71st SOS AC-119G Gunship in Vietnam and Bill Hamilton standing next to a gunship.
A bad guy bullet hole through the boom of a 71st SOS gunship and a 71SOS AC-119G Gunship on take off roll Phan Rang Air Base Vietnam
Ben White 71st SOS AC119G Gunship gunner and Glenn another gunner
71st SOS AC-119G on the ground in Vietnam and a gun computer on board the AC-119G
AC-119G mini guns (During the 71st's pre deployment training, the C-119G Gunships could be seen firing their mini guns at targets at Camp Atterbury, Indiana.)
Flare launcher and IR light on the AC-119G
Camp Alpha Vietnam and captured AAA at Tan Son Nhut before shipment to the United States
A front view of a 71st AC-119G gunship in Vietnam and C Flight mascot
C Flight hats and Vietnam map and Major Maxwell C Flight
Crew 3 C Flight next to "Ghost Rider" AC119-G and Mel Fleener, engineer standing by "Burks Law" AC119-G
Captain Bill Hamilton next to "The City of Columbus" AC119G and a gunship crew planning a mission.
Here is a photo of one of the AC-119G Gunships in for repairs at Chu Lai 1969. This photo was donated by Lore Wiseman, Sergeant, USMC. He was a Marine ordnance man in Chu Li at that time.
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Special Operations Squadron in Vietnam
