Global Aviation Magazine : 60 Years of the Hercules

[Stretchwell]

Just after the Gulf War in 1991 there was a det to Incirlik to drop food and supplies to Kurds who had fled into the mountains to safety. The first photo shows the terrain and all the dots are tents on the mountainside. If you dropped MEs with pink chutes one day there would be a load more pink tents there the following day. Three LXX crews and one 47 led by the best of bosses CM.



We were accompanied on our jaunts by A10s with Mavericks, Aim-9s and milk bottle dispensers ! We had a good and "close" relationship with our A10 colleagues.