Caribou becomes victim of artillery fire ..

[He219]

Interesting pic.

http://pro.corbis.com/images/U1563520.jpg?size=67&uid={fdd1142d-56ed-4019-a410-6fa758f7d681} RIP

August 3, 1967 Original caption:
Split seconds after a U.S. Caribou transport plane had been hit by American artillery, UPI photographer Miromichi Mine recorded this remarkable picture as the plane plummeted to earth at Ha Phan, 45 miles north of Duc Pho. The three crew members were killed.

[fox_111]

Damn! That sux.

[Aerosoul]

Wow. That's quite a photo, and certainly sad to hear the story.

[Roy Batty]

Thought you meant the animal. We were on the live fire ranges a few weeks back in the LAV and the range was given a check-fire for a couple of moose that wandered into the range. :D

[Hellfish]

Deconflicting the battlespace...

[kosse]

Nice picture and a sad story. I first thought that this was about artillery hitting reindeers. We have one of the biggest live fire areas in Europe in Lapland and it happens every know and then that reindeer herds get mowed down by artillery fire especially because there always seems to be fog :|

[sir-chimp]

Any more information about this?

[Hokiecadet]

I thought the same thing that it was a riendeer. Amazing picture but it comes with a heavy cost 3 American dead. RIP

[memphiz]

Thought you meant the animal. We were on the live fire ranges a few weeks back in the LAV and the range was given a check-fire for a couple of moose that wandered into the range. :D
On one of the safety breifs I got when I first arrived in Wainwright is, "When your in a vehicle...ecspecially a LAV...try to avoid running over the cows...we are tired of reimbersing the farmers."

[Roy Batty]

On one of the safety breifs I got when I first arrived in Wainwright is, "When your in a vehicle...ecspecially a LAV...try to avoid running over the cows...we are tired of reimbersing the farmers."


Wainwright....the Army's crulest joke ever.

[memphiz]

Wainwright....the Army's crulest joke ever.
Hey now it could be worse...










oh wait! It cant!

[jmorische]

Think Shilo...it just got worse.

[memphiz]

Think Shilo...it just got worse.
Shilo is a golden compared to Wainwright

Brandon is close by, the locals dont hate you, Winnipeg isnt to far


but in the end there is no argument they're both holes

[Silent 6]

I once saw a whitetailed deer get hammered by M60 rounds while on a range here in Michigan at a NG base. It was ugly!

[EvanL]

The bus i was on yesterday hit a flock of seagulls and there was blood all over the windshield mixed with bird ****.
Guess they didn't "Run too far away"
ohhh hahahahahahahahahahha haaaaaaahaaahahahaha

[Uncle Chô]

Any more information about this?

The caption is indeed correct. The C-7 was on a resupply flight to this Special Forces outpost. It received an artillery shell shot by accident while on the short finale to the airstrip.

There was several press photographers at that very moment. This horrific incident is well covered, there is also a pic taken from a different angle by Hiromichi Mine from Japan (who was later killed during the Tet offensive 8 months later).

It is not uncommon, IIRC an IAF AH-64 Apache was shot down by a MLRS rocket late August over Lebanon...

[sir-chimp]

The caption is indeed correct. The C-7 was on a resupply flight to this Special Forces outpost. It received an artillery shell shot by accident while on the short finale to the airstrip.

There was several press photographers at that very moment. This horrific incident is well covered, there is also a pic taken from a different angle by Hiromichi Mine from Japan (who was later killed during the Tet offensive 8 months later).

It is not uncommon, IIRC an IAF AH-64 Apache was shot down by a MLRS rocket late August over Lebanon...

Thanks for the info

[psif]

I was once on a fanfire on the back of a ship, and our seargent had a big 'ol grin on his face as he said "Now you KNOW you're not supposed to shoot birds." As he gave the call to start firing, there was a hail storm of white water around that bird, but noone could hit it. It was the funniest thing I ever did on an exercise.


Oh yeah, sorry to see that photo, I too thought it was an animal incident. I was in Artillery, and have had to watchout for the same thing from time to time.......0811 1/11 1st Mar Div

[REMOV]

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http://www.c-7acaribou.com/album/photos/ha_thanh_arty.jpg

This photo is from book of photographs by combat photographers called Requiem. The photo credit is as follows: HIROMICHI MINE Ha Phan (sic), Vietnam, 1967
A U.S. twin-engine transport Caribou crashes after being hit by American artillery near Duc Pho on August 3, 1967. U.S. artillery accidentally shot down the ammunition-laden plane, which crossed a firing zone while trying to land at the U.S. Special Forces camp. All three crewman died in the crash.

[Hawk of prairie]

Amazing pic

[Dark Avenger]

Something similar happened during the Greek Civil War in the late forties; a C-47 was resupplying troops fighting communist insurgents (brigands would be a better word) near Theotokos on the Grammos mountain and was hit by friendly arty and crashed in the Sarantaporos river valley. Unfortunately there were no survivorsthere either.

[Henry's Fork]

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/7971/vietnheldrvrgrndcorrlorbi3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/8752/bild13bm9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[oldsoak]

flaps down, wheels out - must have been on finals. Not a snowballs chance in hell for the crew. Must of been one sh*t day for the arty guys, I hope they never found out the gun crew that did it. They would have been under enough pressure already. RIP.

[supercontra]

I read the topic and thought it was pics of a dead animal. Reminds me of when I did my service and a deer had been hit by a 90mm IKV-91 shell (solid concrete practice round). Don't know if it was intentional but there was not much left.
Back to topic.

[supercontra]

BTW Remov, what's the weapon in your AV?

[Basillicus]

So, if I understood correctly the plane was hit by a shell while midair? Talk about bad luck...:-(