Unleashing horrifying firepower and raining death and destruction on to the communist forces in Vietnam from the dark skies ...

The Spooky (U-model) is the third generation of C-130 gunships. All gunships evolved from the first operational gunship, the AC-47 The AC-130 gunship has a combat history dating to Vietnam.

During the Vietnam War, the United States Air Force's first gunship, the AC-47, was introduced ... in the conflict and was an adaptation of the C-130 Hercules, a hefty military cargo aircraft ...