We had A-1E’s flying escort for the C-123’s....low and slow. We were about 30 miles from Laos...
I was Army so I don’t pretend to know that much about what kinds of thing the Air Force was doing with these old planes. I was SW of Pleiku City in 1967-68. I was an aircraft mechanic for Army fixed wing stuff but had to OJT on Beavers and Hueys after you guys “stole” our Caribous. Since I was right on the airstrip I got to see a lot of odd birds, especially some of the stuff Air America flew.
I’ve always been a WWII plane buff - I must have built a model of every plane the Allies as a kid in the 1950s. One thing I do know is that it took a helluva lot of killin’ to bring down an A-1E!