64-0568 Lockheed MC-130E The Last Flight
CN 382-4086
Photographed Wednesday, May 01, 2013, 11:56: AM.
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Decals
The 5 aircraft include a wide variety of aircraft including one from Vietnam and another from Desert Storm MC-130E Serial # 64-0568 Combat Talon I 8th SOS (Assoc.), 711th SOS, 919th SOG, Duke Field, FL in 2000. Dark Gray with light gray markings.
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Combat Talon 1 May 6, 2013 64-0565 & 64-0568 Final Flight
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The MC-130E was the first Combat Talon and was developed to support clandestine special operations missions during the Vietnam War. Eighteen were created by modifying C-130E transports, and four lost through attrition, but the remainder continue in service more than four decades after their initial modification.
Five Combat Talons of the 8th Special Operations Squadron participated in Operation Urgent Fury, the United States invasion of Grenada between October 25 and 31, 1983
Talon 64-0568, flown as Foxtrot 35 by 8th SOS commander Lt Col (later Maj Gen) James L. Hobson[58] and with the commander of the Twenty-Third Air Force, Maj Gen William J. Mall, Jr., aboard as a passenger, combat-dropped the headquarters section of the 1st Ranger Battalion on the airport, despite being targeted by a searchlight and under heavy AAA fire. Two Spectre gunships suppressed the AAA so that the other Combat Talons and the SOLL C-130s could complete the parachute drop of the Ranger battalion, with the only damage to the Talons being three hits by small arms fire to 64-0572.[59] For his actions, Hobson was awarded the MacKay Trophy in 1984.
MC-130MC-130E/H Combat Talon I/II – Special operations infiltration/extraction variant
MC-130W Combat Spear/Dragon Spear – Special operations tanker/gunship
MC-130P Combat Shadow – Special operations tanker
MC-130J Commando II (formerly Combat Shadow II) – Special operations tanker Air Force Special Operations Command
64-0568 Lockheed MC-130E The Last Flight
CN 382-4086
Photographed Wednesday, May 01, 2013, 11:56: AM.
© Paul Larson 2014 All rights reserved.
Decals
The 5 aircraft include a wide variety of aircraft including one from Vietnam and another from Desert Storm MC-130E Serial # 64-0568 Combat Talon I 8th SOS (Assoc.), 711th SOS, 919th SOG, Duke Field, FL in 2000. Dark Gray with light gray markings.
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Combat Talon 1 May 6, 2013 64-0565 & 64-0568 Final Flight
www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/Lockheed-MC-130E-Hercul...
www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=64-0568&a...
The MC-130E was the first Combat Talon and was developed to support clandestine special operations missions during the Vietnam War. Eighteen were created by modifying C-130E transports, and four lost through attrition, but the remainder continue in service more than four decades after their initial modification.
Five Combat Talons of the 8th Special Operations Squadron participated in Operation Urgent Fury, the United States invasion of Grenada between October 25 and 31, 1983
Talon 64-0568, flown as Foxtrot 35 by 8th SOS commander Lt Col (later Maj Gen) James L. Hobson[58] and with the commander of the Twenty-Third Air Force, Maj Gen William J. Mall, Jr., aboard as a passenger, combat-dropped the headquarters section of the 1st Ranger Battalion on the airport, despite being targeted by a searchlight and under heavy AAA fire. Two Spectre gunships suppressed the AAA so that the other Combat Talons and the SOLL C-130s could complete the parachute drop of the Ranger battalion, with the only damage to the Talons being three hits by small arms fire to 64-0572.[59] For his actions, Hobson was awarded the MacKay Trophy in 1984.
MC-130MC-130E/H Combat Talon I/II – Special operations infiltration/extraction variant
MC-130W Combat Spear/Dragon Spear – Special operations tanker/gunship
MC-130P Combat Shadow – Special operations tanker
MC-130J Commando II (formerly Combat Shadow II) – Special operations tanker Air Force Special Operations Command