From sammcgowan at troopcarrier.org Thu Sep 8 16:11:30 2011 From: sammcgowan at troopcarrier.org (Sam McGowan) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:11:30 -0500 Subject: [TCTAAmembers] From the AFA Newsletter - DRAGON ROUGE airplane In-Reply-To: <20110908104320.F7B69B42@resin15.mta.everyone.net> References: <20110908104320.F7B69B42@resin15.mta.everyone.net> Message-ID: <278142A05C2D4C1E92BC6ECDC9B1C2B1@OfficePC> Thanks Ernie, this is great news! I had heard that a C-130E was sent to Robins for the museum, now we know which one it was. We need to get in touch with as many Dragon Rouge veterans as we can and get them to come to the convention. I know Mack Secord and Jim Coble (I think that?s right) are in Atlanta. Jim Ostrem is a TCTAA member. Tom Wark was on the mission. Don Strobaugh was the the combat control officer. Somewhere in a box in my closet I have a copy of his mission report, which includes all of the Chalk Numbers and the associated tail numbers. Sam From: Ernest or Rochelle Gassiott Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 12:43 PM To: Sam McGowan Subject: From the AFA Newsletter Resting Place for a Red Dragon Herk: A 47-year-old C-130E, one of the Air Force's oldest Hercules aircraft and the veteran of a harrowing rescue decades ago, landed for the last time at Robins AFB, Ga., for display at the adjacent Museum of Aviation. Aircraft # 63-7868 arrived at Robins on Tuesday, reported the Macon Telegraph. On Nov. 23, 1964, this aircraft was among the C-130s that participated in Operation Dragon Rouge to rescue 2,000 western hostages held by rebels in Stanleyville in the former Republic of the Congo. Damaged by rebel fire departing Stanleyville, aircraft # 63-7868 continued 800 miles on three engines, delivering its passengers to safety and earning its crew the MacKay Trophy for the most meritorious flight of that year. Previously assigned to the 314th Airlift Wing at Little Rock AFB, Ark., this C-130E is the museum's second Hercules variant, joining an AC-130 gunship already on display. (See also Museum of Aviation release) -Ernest or Rochelle Gassiott -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: