O-1 Birddog. "Flew these in fixed wing school. Could land or take off from just about anywhere, had lots of power and lots of flaps. Very fun to fly." Photo and comment by Tom Everhart
HMAS (Her Majesty's Australian Ship) Sydney – an aerial shot showing her open flight wells. The aircraft carrier was not air-conditioned and in the tropics the heat below decks was extreme. [Image courtesy of John Thackray.]
The view from a Cessna O-1 ‘Bird Dog’ forward air controller aircraft as smoke rises from one of its target marking rockets next to a canal in South Vietnam.
Water-filled bomb craters from B-52 strikes against the Viet Cong mark the rice paddies and orchards west of Saigon, Vietnam, 1966. Most of the area had been abandoned by the peasants who used to farm on the land.
Hill, seen from an aerial view, while the Lang Vei camp was under construction, mid-1967. An artillery battery shelling the Lang Vei Special Forces camp site, as the infantry approaches and prepares to sweep the area in the aftermath of the assault by North Vietnamese Army (NVA) tanks and infantry, Feb 1968. Photo by Virgil Carter.
Aerial view of a napalm strike. Photo by David Adams, a Cobra pilot in the gun group during the years 1970-1971 with the Scout Platoon, D Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. 1969-1970. Courtesy of Mike Gustin. http://www.dtroop.com/
Slums seen while flying over Saigon. Photo by David Adams, a Cobra pilot in the gun group during the years 1970-1971 with the Scout Platoon, D Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. 1969-1970. Courtesy of Mike Gustin.
Photo by Bill Foster who served with the "Blues" (Saber Blues) D-Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. Nov. 1970-Aug. 1971. Courtesy of Mike Gustin
LOH heading to refuel along Tra Bong River. Photo by Mike Gustin who came to Chu Lai to be with D-Troop after spending one year in the Central Highlands of Pleiku. Mike was a Door Gunner and Crew Chief with the "Scouts". D-Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. 1969-1970. http://www.dtroop.com/
Formation flying with LOH's. Photo by Jim Lundy, a Cobra pilot a Scout Door Gunner with the Scout Platoon, D-Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. 1969-1970. Courtesy of Mike Gustin. http://www.dtroop.com/
