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Old 8th Jan 2009, 14:06
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Originally Posted by LittleMo
I was just reading an article by Prof. Richard Wood called FIREFORCE and came across an account of a Rhodesian Airforce Alouette III, configured as a gunship or 'K-Car', flown by Charles Goatley, with Beaver Shaw manning the 20mm cannon, which had the distinction of shooting down a Botswana Defence Force Islander on 9 August 1979.
Ah, the 1970s: when men were real men, women were real women, and outsized cab-mounted 20mm cannon were real outsized cab-mounted 20mm cannon...

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