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VFP-63 was a Light Photographic Squadron of the U.S. Navy. Originally established as Composite Squadron Sixty-One (VC-61) on 20 January 1949, it was redesignated as Fighter Photographic Squadron (VFP-61) on 2 July 1956.
Downed USAF Douglas A-1E, pilot was later awarded the Medal of Honor A-1 Skyraider—191 total, 150 in combat . First loss: A-1E 52-132465 (1st Air Commando Squadron [ACS], 34th Tactical Group [TG]) shot down during night training mission on 29 August 1964 near Bien Hoa, SVN (Capt Richard Dean Goss KIA, one RVNAF observer [name unknown] KIA) [12]: 10
Klusmann was a navy lieutenant (O-3) when he was shot down over the Plain of Jars, Laos) on June 6, 1964, flying an RF-8A Crusader aircraft from the VFP-63, USS Kitty Hawk He was the first airman shot down and captured by the Pathet Lao and the first to escape three months later, on August 30.
The pilot was waved off on the first pass, and boltered on the second pass. ... Of these losses, 7 were in Vietnam, ... VCP-63, later VFP-63, based at Naval Air ...
A United States pilot who disappeared while conducting a spy mission during the Vietnam War has finally been accounted for, military officials said Tuesday. U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W ...
The pilot, Lieutenant William Thomas Costen and Navigator/Bombardier, Lieutenant Charlie Turner, were killed. Their bodies were recovered. January 18 – An OV-10 Bronco (Bureau Number 155435) was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. The pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Clifford M. Acree, and observer, Chief Warrant Officer Guy L. Hunter Jr., were ...
Military officials say they have solved the mystery of a pilot who disappeared while flying over Vietnam during a mission in 1967. Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing, 33, of Columbus, Wisconsin, was ...
The remains of a U.S. Air Force pilot who died while serving in the Vietnam War were personally flown home by the man's son — 52 years after the two saw each other for the last time.