The reverse of this 'Blind Bat 13' photograph preserves a handwritten crew roster and a remarkable survival account: a crewman who fell from an AC-130 gunship at 3,000 feet in the middle of the night survived with only a partially deployed parachute and was rescued the same day. Notes like these, scrawled on the backs of wartime snapshots, offer invaluable firsthand context for the Air Commando and gunship crews who flew dangerous night interdiction missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the Vietnam War. Project: 218871