Here are some more photos of the stuff we flew and used back in the day.

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Charlie gonna pay!

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Spec. Five Lee Daffron pulling maintenance.

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SP/4 Ernie Wilson checks over his flex guns.
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“Here’s looking at you, kid.”

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 A fancily painted 18 shot rocket pod.

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A gunship sets on the “hot spot” ready to scramble at Starcom located on Tan Son Nhut AFB in Saigon.

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Notice how the later model gunships vertical fin was curved?  It really helped a bunch.

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Got a couple of pet pigs on the nose of this B model gunship.

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The end of an era.  Very last flight of the Razorbacks.  Fly-by of Nha Be in 1972.

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There’s a steel plate added to the door for pilot protection and the cargo for today is cold Kool-aid.

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Ugly, but well hung.

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Here’s lookin’ at you, kid.

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A close-up of an unmounted “cluster light”.

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The mighty H Model.  The most prolific helicopter utilized in Vietnam.

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A clean deck and the extra machine gun barrel racks are full.

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Reflex sight and trigger for both the flex & mini gun systems.

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SP/5 Thomas Howell working out with his 60.

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Stephen “Smokey” Stover sent this photo of 358, an alternate lightship to 437.  Bo Stewart was the CE on 358 during the time this photo was taken at Nha Be.

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Jim Hunt provided this photo of the “hog” at Hotel 3.

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This photo is of Tony Serratore’s gunship.  Two flares are being readied for the coming night’s mission.  This was the final photo Tony sent before he passed away.