AZRAEL, Angel of Death, AC-130A Spectre Gunship Poster. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards with Combat “V” Device: 1 Jan- 1 Apr- 13-. Choose your favorite ac 130 gunship posters from 54 available designs. Presidential Unit Citations: (Southeast Asia), - 1 Jan. Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia Liberation and Defense of Kuwait.Īrmed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. Vietnam: Vietnam Air Offensive, Phase III Vietnam Air Offensive, Phase IV TET 69/Counteroffensive Vietnam Summer-Fall, 1969 Vietnam Winter-Spring, 1970 Sanctuary Counteroffensive Southwest Monsoon Commando Hunt V Commando Hunt VI Commando Hunt VII Vietnam Ceasefire. World War II: India-Burma Central Burma China Offensive. World War II American Theater.Ĭampaign Streamers. Participated in Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm, 1990-1991. Combat in Southeast Asia, Nov 1968-Jul 1974 Grenada, 24 Oct- Panama, - and Southwest Asia, Jan. Combat aerial transportation from India to Burma and China, Dec 1944-Oct 1945. Ferried aircraft from factories to units in US and Canada and conducted pilot training Apr 1942-Apr 1944. Unkn (ferried tactical and support aircraft), 1942-1944. Ubon RTAFB, Thailand, Korat RTAFB, Thailand, Eglin AF Aux Airfield #9 (Hurlburt Field), FL, -.Īircraft. Syracuse Army Air Base, NY, Bowman Field, KY, 16 Aug- Sylhet, India, Argartala, India, Chittagong, India, Namponmao, Burma, Ledo, India, Namponmao, Burma, Oct 1945 Ondal, India, Nov. Unlike other military fixed-wing aircraft, the AC-130 relies on visual targeting. It carries a wide array of anti-ground oriented weapons that are integrated with sophisticated sensors, navigation, and fire-control systems. Hensley Field, Grand Prairie, TX, Love Field, Dallas, TX, -. The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily armed, long-endurance ground-attack variant of the C-130 Hercules transport fixed-wing aircraft. 8 Tactical Fighter Wing, (attached to 388 Tactical Fighter Wing, -) Tactical Air Command, 1 Special Operations Wing, 1 Special Operations (later, 16 Operations 1 Special Operations) Group,. 4 Combat Cargo Group, Army Air Forces, India-Burma Theater, 4 Combat Cargo Group, c. Middle West Sector, Air Corps Ferrying Command (later, 5 Ferrying Group),. 16 Ferrying Squadron (constituted 16 Air Corps Ferrying Squadron on activated on redesignated 16 Ferrying Squadron on disbanded on reconstituted on ) consolidated () with the 16 Combat Cargo Squadron (constituted on activated on inactivated on disbanded on reconstituted on ) and the 16 Special Operations Squadron (constituted on activated on ).Īssignments. 16 th SPECIAL OPERATIONS SQUADRON (AFSOC)

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