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Sorry to be so long answering your question. Do not remember ail number getting old bad memory. Ken

We had a hanger queen assigned to our crew she had been canabalized for several months this was 66 or 67, after putting her back together and a test flight she was released and our crew had her for next day missions. we made about 7 flights and returned to natrang, we used the short runway as someone had managed to crash a bird dog on the main runway. Started the flaps down they went assymetrical at 15 degrees, loadmaster called said hyd fluid all over cargo comp.Pilot was Don leightola Zimmerman copilot I was FE.on touch down no hyd went to emergency then on reversing #2 flamed out #3 hung in flight idle, we stoped about 50 ft from the brick wall, very interesting day.

always used to put in another 1000# for the wife when leaving midway on the way home, hit horrible headwinds once ground speed was about 120 knots as I recall.

Inthe early 50s on c-47s you really had to be careful most of the airborn were ww2 vets and they got a great kick out of draging an unaware troop with them, the incident Where a sewart bird flew thru a string of troops it was an E model I WENT ON TOP AND LOOKED AT THE SKID MARKS FROM THE JUMPERS BOOTS WHERE THEY HIT THE a/c. aLSO THE ASSISTANT CREW CHIEF THAT WENT OUT THE FRONT CARGO DOOR WHEN THE LOCKS FAILED WAS KENNETH BACH

remember it very well. Also Nakon Fanong (Naked fanny)What about Pussy Mountain? Ken

remember it very well. What about Pussy Mountain? Ken

My best one was a trip to easter island we had to wear civies cause we could not be in uniform in South america, We had a weather hold in Santiago that lasted 5 days, We got used to Pisco sourers the hotel we were in had all of these fantastic young ladies going in and out , so asked and were told they were practising to be mothers, we volinteered but then were told the proper word was models, oh well, Carried an ex Luftwaf pilot out with us a L/C in the Chilean AF. were broke when we got back to McGuire.

I am getting older so my mind does not recall all of the details that I heard about the shootdown, I did read a translated version of the North Korean mig pilots conversation all I can recall about that was the conversation on the size of the herky, and I had the belief that it was an A model. Sorry this is not much help. I am 78 years old and this happened more then 4o years ago.Also I heard about this in 1964 Ken