C-130 Aircraft Reference:

• C-130 Aircraft Inventory Listing by Bob Daley (Updated 8 Sept 2004)
• AMARC Herks (PDF format) Contributed by Bob Daley. A chart showing all the C-130s currently in mothballs at Davis-Mothan AFB, AZ. (Updated 9 Dec 2003)
• C-130 Aircraft Losses in Southeast Asia by Bob Daley: Concise listing of all Herks lost during the Vietnam War.
• C-130 Crew Personnel Losses in Southeast Asia compiled by Bob Daley
• C-130 Aircrew losses for all years (PDF format) by Bob Daley (Updated 29 Apr   2002)

Articles archived on this site:

•  Whiskey- Charlie: The History of the WC-130 Hercules by Tom Robison: Very thorough and interesting article about this unique mission of the C-130. (latest edition posted 9 May 04)
• Account of talk given by Credible Sport Test Pilot from a LMEA Flying Club newsletter
• The Demise of Aircraft 61-2642 by Mark Sierzchulski, first hand account of rocket attack that destroyed this Herk in 1971 with pictures.
• The Last Mission of Combat Talon’s S-01 Crew by By Colonel John Gargus, USAF (Ret.)
• Charles--- 130H: Three Decades of Lockheed Hercules operations with No. 40 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, by Paul Harrison.
• Predator: AC-130s Prowl the Ho Chi Minh Trail, by Michael E. Haas
• The Most Deployed Unit in the Air National Guard: A History of the 193rd SOW of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard by Paul Hart
• Radio Controlled C-130 Short story with pictures of an RC model herk built to 1/12 scale by Joe Grable (very cool)
• Aircraft in scam may have flown for CIA, Tim Steller for the Arizona daily Star
• C-130 Float Plane Proposal, Press Release: , you got to see it to believe it. The U.S. Navy.
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• Ski, not SKE... The LC-130s of the NY Air Guard, by Capt Stephen Fifield
• 52nd Airlift Squadron Deactivates by Nathan Alderman

Vietnam era C-130 airlift stories by Sam McGowan:

• An Loc: April of 1972, airlifters face one of their most challenging moments of the war.
• Mactan: The airlift mission from this small isle in 1965.
• Blind Bat:
• A Luoi:
• Airlift to Khe Sanh:
• Katum:

Articles not on this site (no guarantees on these links)

• The Australian Involvement in Vietnam: Hercules Saga
• The Awesome Power of Air Force Gunships, Air Force Magazine Apr 99
• A Tennessee Loadmaster by Sam McGowan. A tribute to loadmaster Charlie Shaub, who won the Air Force Cross during a mission to An Loc in April 1972.
• A Flight into Hurricane Luis by Jack Beven. Story of one man's experience flying into a hurricane with the 53rd WRS.
• Catch a Falling Star by Phil Rowe: Describes the unique mission of the JC-130
• Desert One by Otto Kreisher. Recap of the mission to rescue hostages held in Iran that ended in disaster.
• Fire Flight at Katum 25 Jun 1968 by Britt Blaser. Excellent story of a harrowing experience of a crew flying out of Katum after their C-130 catches on fire.
• LC-130 Aircraft Listing by Joe Hawkins
• EC-130G and EC-130Q aircraft listing by Joe Hawkins
• Shootdown at Katum Special Forces Camp eyewitness account by Reg Manning
• Spectre in the Night Sky Means Trouble on the Trail by Lt. Col. James F. Humphries, Jr.
• The Four Horsemen by Sam McGowan, Interesting story of the C-130 Aerial demonstration team in the late 1950s.
• Special Delivery Article in Airman magazine about the 36th AS at Yokota AB, Japan
• How many rockets can make plane land like a chopper? CNN news story about a C-130 modified with lift rockets during the Iran hostage crisis
• Cold War Reconnaissance and the Shootdown Of Flight 60528, Description of the mission of a C-130 shot down by Russian Mig 17s September 2nd, 1958.
• Western Wildfires Short Article in Airman magazine about C-130's fighting forest fires in California
• Hunting Season Article about the 53rd Weather Recon Squadron at Keesler AFB and their unique hurricane hunting mission.Dec 1995
• The Son Tay Raid November 21, 1970: By Lieutenant General LeRoy J. Manor, United States Air Force Retired