The Don Englebreston Collection
Unit Display Area with the 'SPADS for MACVSOG' Banner and an Orange Flight Suit, Special Operations Association Reunion 2014
A unit display area at the 2014 Special Operations Association Reunion, photographed as members gathered around the table. On the wall hangs the finished 'SPADS for MACVSOG' photo-montage banner — the end product of the design working files preserved elsewhere in this collection — showing a Douglas A-1 Skyraider marked 628 among scenes of Vietnam-era operations. An orange flight suit with squadron patches hangs beside it, a video plays on a monitor, and a second unit banner hangs to the right. 'Spad' was the affectionate nickname for the piston-engine A-1, whose crews flew close air support for the cross-border reconnaissance teams of MACV-SOG. Project: 219862