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Had to laugh the other day.  A friend of mine who was a "Cobra" pilot told me they called the 2.75-inch folding fin aerial rockets "wonder rockets" ... because once they launched, one wondered where they would land 

We came across a hostile elephant in a big water filled clearing. We had been out doing our thing all day but even though low on ammo ,,,there were no friendly elephants in our A.O.  Delta 21 rolled in hot and missed the entire elephant with his wonder rocket !!

Delta 21 would put rockets so close to us on final there were times you thought you could grab one as it went by your aircraft !!!

By missing the elephant with his last missile he was more than embarrassed..

Vance was flying with me and he wanted to get some close up pictures of the elephant so I began to hover ever closer to the animal. I was so close the rotor blades were probably over lapping the beast when all of a sudden the elephant sprayed water and charged !! My reaction time was quite good back then or there would have been a letter to dear old mom saying your son was killed by a hostile charging elephant while flying a combat assault mission !