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in the Roster
Webmaster Note:
References should have included the Pilots. And Crew Chiefs who also
manned guns on the left side of the Huey. We were a four man crew, none
could survive without the other.
I believe this is the first news
release about the then secret Operation Shotgun. Read the rest we have
below.
This
site is an effort to document the Shotgun program, the shotgun platoons and its
members. All aviation units Pilots & Crew Chief/Door Gunners they flew with.
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posting. Please email:
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WHO CLAIM TO BE Vietnam vets are not.
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