OASU - VX-8 - VXN-8 The Connie Years

[gray eagle]

Good Ken Burns like documentary with some background tunes that bring back the memories.
Around frame 0817 you will see a picture of a connie with a big hole in its tail, think that was one of the Blue Eagles that
must of been shot by ground fire from RVN.

 

[GypsyBaron]

Yes, the one with the hole in the tail was "444". It took a VC mortar round during one of the attacks on Tan Son Nhut a month or two before I got there in '66. The aircraft had been repaired by the time I got there. I crewed on "444" almost exclusively, flying every other night, for my first 6-month TDY with OASU DETWESTPAC. We had two aircraft there at Tan Son Nhut and we alternated the flying duties. On my second TDY in '67 I crewed on "627" out of DaNang. We only had the one aircraft up there so we flew every night. Paul