Camp Holloway Discussion Forum Archive 02 - 05/07/01 to 02/28/03

Support from the 174th

Taken from a Combat Operations After Action Report for the period 22 through 30 April 1967.

"The VC fighting C 1/35 in the village found the going getting rough, and after the second air strike 12 VC decided to make an escape. They began to run out of the village just as an "Shark" gunship, 174th Aviation Company, flew by. The alert "Shark" saw them and quickly made a 180° turn to enable his gunship to come in behind the 12 VC. Running with their backs to the closing gunship, they were easy prey for the "Shark" miniguns. The gunships pass was so low over the rice paddy, the spraying water and mud from the bullet strikes covered the windshield and the gunship had to return to LZ Montezuma to wash the windshield."

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