~ 720th Military Police Battalion Vietnam History Project ~

Photo G1350: Downpours of lethal tracer rounds (only 1 of every 5 bullets was a tracer) from a DC3 C47 “Spooky” gunship mini-guns as it suppresses a Viet Cong probe of the perimeter defenses of the joint 9th Infantry Division - Thailand Army Volunteer Forces Bearcat Base Camp on Highway QL-15 in Bien Hoa Province, Military Region III, Vietnam during the early morning hours on 21 July 1969. Courtesy of Signalman Nicholas John Quigley, 104th Signal Squadron, Royal Australian Forces, May-September, 1969.

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