C-47 Mortar Damage at Pleiku, Vietnam

Close up photo of underside of C-47 Gooney Bird transport on the ramp in Pleiku, Vietnam -1972. That day as part of our itinerary our C-130 had an out-and-back mission from/to Pleiku. We had been parked next to this C-47, uploaded cargo. The C-47 took an indirect hit from some kind of rocket or mortar. Underside of C-47 wing ripped up pretty good with shrapnel and lots of leaking aircraft fluids. Fortunate there was no secondary explosion. Timing is everything.