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Lieutenant Colonel: USAF: 428th Tactical Fighter Squadron: Operation Combat Lancer: North Vietnam: Copilot of F-111A #66-024 that disappeared on a solo night bombing mission [176] Presumptive finding of death [3] April 24: Crossman, Gregory J: 1st Lieutenant: USAF: 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron: Operation Rolling Thunder: North Vietnam ...
A US Air Force North American F-100C Super Sabre [102] of the 136th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 107th Tactical Fighter Group, New York Air National Guard, departed Niagara Falls Air Force Base, New York, on a training flight to Erie, Pennsylvania, but pilot Lt. Edward Metlot, of New York City, was informed by his wingman that his plane was on fire.
Several Air Force veterans said if the plane had been 30 feet higher it would have cleared the hill top. At the time of the crash it was misting rain and the ceiling was almost at tree-top level. Pilot was Lt. Col. James K. McLaughlin of Charleston, deputy commanding officer of the 123d Fighter-Bomber Wing, of which the men are members. The two ...
Other photos were taken of mutilated body parts, among them one of a head being maneuvered with a stick. [20] In Kabul, senior officials at NATO's International Security Assistance Force have compared the pictures published to the images of U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners in Abu Ghraib in Iraq. [21]
Traditional hat toss and flyover by Air Force Thunderbirds at the graduation ceremony at the United States Air Force Academy Logo of the Air Force Academy. The United States Air Force Academy is an undergraduate college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with the mission of educating and commissioning officers for the United States Air Force and United States Space Force.
Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556. Mueller, Robert (1989). Air Force Bases, Vol. I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982 (PDF). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History.
The photograph depicts United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Stirm being reunited with his family, after spending more than five years in captivity as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. On October 27, 1967, Stirm was shot down over Hanoi while leading a flight of F-105s on a bombing mission, and was not released until March 14 ...
The 37th Helicopter Squadron is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the 582d Helicopter Group in support of the 90th Missile Wing located at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. The unit is tasked with flight operations in support of the operation and security of F.E. Warren's intercontinental ballistic missile complex as well as ...