News
from the
AC-119 Gunship Association
November 11, 2009
Page
Updated
January 30, 2010
The first 20 pages of the 300-page AC-119 Gunship History Book are devoted to the histories of the 71st, 17th, & 18th Special Operation Squadrons and the histories/data of the AC-119G Shadow and AC-119K Stinger gunships. The remainder of the book contains short biographies of 223 Shadow & Stinger personnel along with war stories and pictures.
In the book, find out about the following:
What pilot took-off with an engine on fire?
How many pallets of beer did a gunship crew destroy by inadvertently launching a flare over the Bien Hoa AB BX?
What was it like scanning for AAA? Being hit by a 57mm?
What navigator radioed the Cambodian ground commander, “Too many clouds in sky, cannot see”?
What were the perils faced by gunship flight line maintenance during rocket attacks?
What was it like having to bailout of a gunship?
Which Shadow crew flew a 6.0 hour TIC mission?
Which crew mistakenly flew into North Vietnam?
Which crew claims to have destroyed the greatest number of Water buffalo? Elephants?
Which Stinger crew claimed a record 39 trucks in a single mission?
What were some of the imaginative ways aircrew and ground crews got their jobs done?
The AC-119 Gunship Association is a not-for-profit organization; therefore, the Association is selling this historical document for the cost of printing and handling. The price is right! Order now to insure that you get your copies of this one-and-only history book about the AC-119 Gunship Squadrons, AC-119G/K Gunships, and AC-119 Gunship Airmen who flew and maintained the Shadow and Stinger.
The History Book is available in two versions in hardcover ($50) and in a plasticized cover with plastic-coil spiral binding ($35).
To order, send a check or money order payable to “AC-119 Gunship Association History Book Fund” in the amount of $50.00 for each hardcover and $35.00 for each plasticized cover (spiral binding), plus $5.00 shipping and handling for each book.
To order your book send a check or money order payable
to “AC-119 Gunship Association History Book Fund” in the
amount of $50.00 to:
Dough Wohlgamuth, Treasurer
AC-119 Gunship Association
504 Shea Place
Sun City Center, FL 33573
Some History | The Gunships | Photos
Stories | AC-119 Cartoons | Favorite Links
©2000-2010,
AC-119 Gunship Association
All rights reserved