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See Puff Fly |
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See Puff. See Puff fly.
Oops! You can't see Puff
in that Stygian sky...
But you can see his
fiery breath
as he exhales
crimson death on the
attackers gathered
below. No wonder that
we loved him so! |
By
Thurman P. Woodfork
Copyright 2007
Listed
February 20, 2011 |
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The legendary AC-47 gunship, affectionately known as Spooky, Puff, or Puff the Magic Dragon, breathes its fire breath on the hapless enemy below. Photograph by Thomas M. Zangla from the MACV Team 21 compound, Pleiku, Vietnam � May 1969 |
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About Author...
Thurman P. Woodfork (Woody) spent his
Air Force career as a radar repairman in places as disparate as
Biloxi, Mississippi; Cut Bank, Montana; Tin City, Alaska; Rosas,
Spain and Tay Ninh, Vietnam. In Vietnam, he was assigned to
Detachment 7 of the 619th Tactical Control Squadron, a Forward Air
Command Post located on Trai Trang Sup. Trang Sup was an Army
Special Forces camp situated about fifty miles northwest of Saigon
in Tay Ninh province, close to the Cambodian border.
After Vietnam, Woody remained in the Air Force for nine more years.
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