February
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1 Feb 1975
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Tactical Air Command C-130B, #58-0721, c/n 3516, of the 706th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 926th Tactical Airlift Group, 442nd Tactical Airlift Wing, tailcode NO, Naval Air Station New Orleans, Louisiana, 1974
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April
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6 Apr 1975
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C-130A #55-0002 of the South Vietnamese Air Force ran off runway at Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, burned.
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28 Apr 1975
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C-130E #72-1297, c/n 4519, of the 314th Tactical Airlift Wing, destroyed by 122 mm rocket, Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam. After off-loading a BLU-82, it was hit while taxiing to pick up evacuees. This was the last U.S. military Hercules hull loss associated with the war in Southeast Asia. It was these attacks by the advancing NVA that forced the closing of Tan Son Nhut to fixed-wing evacuation, thus necessitating the now-famous helicopter evacuations from downtown Saigon by the United States Marine Corps and the Air America arm of the CIA. See Operation Frequent Wind.
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July
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26 Jul 1975
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C-130A #57-0454, c/n 3161, of the 63rd Tactical Airlift Squadron, crashed north of Imlay City, Michigan
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August
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28 Aug 1975
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C-130E #TC-62 of Argentine Air Force (1 Escuadrón, 1 Brigada Aérea, El Palomar, Buenos Aires), destroyed when bomb exploded on runway in front of aircraft during take-off from Tucuman, Argentina. 4 of 114 Gendarmes onboard killed.
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November
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25 Nov 1975
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C-130H #203/4X-FBO of the Israeli Defense Force/Air Force crashed into mountain Jebel Halal, 55 kilometers south-southeast of El Arish, Egypt. Pilots were Shaul Bustan and Uri Manor.
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