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‘Puff the Magic Dragon’: The ‘Spooky’ Story of the AC-47 Gunship

Unleashing horrifying firepower and raining death and destruction on to the communist forces in Vietnam from the dark skies above, the AC-47 fixed-wing gunship was the first of its kind. Creating a Monster Giving cargo aircraft a new mission, the gunship conversions created during the Vietnam War provided close air ground support to troops on […]

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