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Voodoo One O Wonder

275,00 

Vintage Helmet Bag Vietnam with original Patches

This item is unique because patches and bag are vintage and exist only once in this version.
In each case we can only deliver this one bag!

These are the original bags of the US Army fighter pilots Ultra light but very durable The bags were produced until the end of the 70’s and have the great brass zipper Each of the bags is used and was in use. Individualized with original patches of the US combat units of the Vietnam War Limited to 35 pieces.

“Nous defions” is French, and means “we defy”. It was one of the slogans of the French resistance in WWII and was adopted by Allied units which aided them, including the OSS. The OSS split after the war, with some of the personnel moving into the US military, and eventually founding the US Special Forces. A particular subset of the Special Forces adopted the motto as their own. It’s currently used by SF teams which specialize in close-quarters combat.

 

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The McDonnell F-101 Conceived as a fighter escort for SAC nuclear bombers, then adapted to other roles, McDonnell’s 1,000-mph F-101 Voodoo made its mark operationally as a photoreconnaissance platform and fighter-interceptor.

As Lieutenant Colonel James R. Brickel rolled his RF-101C Voodoo into a photo run, he became the target for what could easily have been the most anti-aircraft fire ever aimed at a single plane. The operations officer of the 20th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (TRS) based at Udorn, Thailand, Brickel had volunteered for a mission to take poststrike photographs of the Thai Nguyen iron and steel plant, 30 miles north of Hanoi. In early March 1967, as part of Operation Rolling Thunder, Washington policymakers—after almost three years of official vacillation—finally approved an airstrike against Thai Nguyen, which had earlier been classified as one of the most important strategic targets in North Vietnam. By this time, however, the North Vietnamese had managed to saturate the site with 37mm, 57mm and radar-controlled 85mm anti-aircraft guns. The plant was also within a 60-mile envelope containing numerous SA-2 surface-to-air missile sites and approximately 100 MiG-17 and MiG-21 fighters.