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I have that photo in one of my books. At Cu Chi, one of our Huey's was hit by an out going round. It came up through the floor out the roof and missed the main rotor blades. Gary S.During WW1 the spotting aircraft operated near the apex altitude of the shells and routinely reported seeing them as they reached their peak and slowed down, being buffeted by passing artillery and some instances of aircraft being hit, some by the shells from the battery they were supporting.
There were several reports by pilots of seeing naval 15" rounds in the air while supporting the D-Day landings and Normandy campaign, WCdr Johnnie Johnson was one of them. A naval spotter flying a Seafire flew thru the slipstream of a 15" round and was spun out of control, recovering just before impact. As in WW1, there were instances of spotters being hit by artillery.
There is this photo of a CARIBOU hit by a friendly 155mm shell while on approach to land at Ha Thanh Special Forces Camp.
Cheers,
RichB
Didn't they figure out it was ball lightening? Or was it swamp gas??Actually the Foo Fighters of WW2 were unidentified glowing ballas that buzzzed both allied and Axis aircraft at night and during the day. They would follow aircraft along their route maintining the same altitude for long periods, circle aicraft and even buzz the motors ejecting something that would disable the aircraft engines and causing the bombers to drop then crews would have the engines restart themselves once they had dropped some distance. The Allise thought they were a German secret weapon until the afterthe war the Germans confirmed it wasn't them and that German pilots werer experiencing the same thing.
Just ask Dr.J Allen Hynek, he came up with that in the late 60's then admitted he was pressured to come-up with anything but what he thought it was.....he later became an active advocate and researcher on the UFO/UAP subject..Didn't they figure out it was ball lightening? Or was it swamp gas??
very poetic.