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Mt.crewchief

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  1. Our 
    Blind Bat birds had a 400mm starlight night vision scope mounted on a chair  in the right para-troop door. One of us was always sitting in that chair looking for trucks and other activity on the Ho Chi Minh trail.  If enemy activity was spotted we called in air strikes and stayed on station and flared the targets so the fighters could see them.

     This picture is one I took through the scope of a fire ? on a river. 

  2. Ronnie Hensley, a good friend from West Virginia that was stationed with me at Naha. 

    He was killed while flying as crew member on an AC-130 Gunship flying out of Ubon Thailand in 1970.  He and all but one of the crew members died in Laos. 

     May you rest in peace Ron

  3. My two partners of 40 missions on BlindBat posing while we were performing an ADS check before crossing into enemy territory. This was done nightly to make sure we could jettison the flares in case of fire. Chris Carter on the left and Paul Henning (real loadmaster) on right. Missions were long and boring unless something happened, then they were far from boring. Sometimes you got the shit scared out of you!

  4.    I served a 90 day, 40 mission tour at Ubon Thailand as a Loadmaster/Flare-kicker in 1968.  I was taking my turn pre-flighting the flares and the dual rails before flight time that night.

    This was the mission named Blind Bat . We always flew in the dark with no lights on. All missions were flown over North Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. 

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