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04.21hrs (GMT), Somewhere over South Korean territory, heading for Seoul.
The whole world could be shaking, for all you could feel all around you. But it wasn’t. It was the hulking great frame of the Lockheed C-130E Hercules USAF transport plane juddering from the might of its four 4050hp Allison T56-A-7 turbo-prop engines, with their four-bladed Hamilton Standard propellers tearing their way through the violent air turbulence of East Asian sky. Wind shrieked and engines screamed, hauling the 14ton body load onwards towards the South Korean capital. Its cavernous hold with a volume of 4300cu ft, was carrying 240mm M1 howitzers, three 2.5 ton M35 trucks, one Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne helicopter, along with 114 troops. And Major Frank Falzoni.
Frank looked along the row of young raw G.I.
