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To: Michael M who wrote (33592)	10/17/2001 9:08:32 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (3) of 82486

I think Puff refers to all gunships. The AC-47 was called "Spooky". This is how they came to be called "Puff the Magic Dragon": During a night defense of a hamlet in the Mekong River Delta, a reporter from the Stars and Stripes watched an AC-47 attack from inside the fortitfications. Upon witnessing the wrath that the AC-47 brought down on the VC attackers that night, he reported that visual effect of the tracers, 1 in every 5 rounds or 20 per second, gave the appearance of dragon's breath. He also tied the roar of the guns into the description. Upon reading the account in the Stars and Stripes, the CO of the 1st Commando Squadron exclaimed "Well, I'll be damned! Puff, the Magic Dragon." from a child's song recently popularized in the U.S. by the trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Captured VC documents later told of orders not to attack the Dragon as weapons are useless and it will only infuriate the monster. -- I read there are two gunships deployed. I think they have 4 vipers as standard equipment. But, no idead of the armament on the two deployed.

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