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VFP-63 was a Light Photographic Squadron of the U.S. Navy. ... On 8 May RF-8A [BuNo 145628] was hit by AAA fire over North Vietnam, the pilot ejected and was rescued. [5]
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.
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 Commander Michael Scott Speicher, of VFA-81 was killed but his body was not found until July 2009. January 17 – An A-6E Intruder (Bureau Number 161668) was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over western Iraq. The pilot, Lieutenant Robert Wetzel, and Navigator/Bombardier, Lieutenant Jeffrey Norton Zaun, were captured.
William A. Sayers writing in 2019 asserted that North Vietnam only had three aces in the war including Phạm Thanh Ngân, with the other "aces" being creations of North Vietnamese propaganda that included claimed "kills" on days where no U.S. losses occurred, crediting VPAF pilots with kills that had actually been achieved by surface to air ...
The helicopter goes down just as McNamara lands in another chopper with Maj. Gen. Hguyen Khanh, head of South Vietnam's military government. The Huey's engine apparently stalls, losing power just as the helicopter executes a sharp sweeping turn upward after making a low level pass over some trees while looking for snipers.
[43] [44] Between June and July 1966, during 12 engagements over North Vietnam, Crusaders claimed four MiG-17s for two losses. [45] Crusader pilots would claim the best kill ratio of any American type in the Vietnam War, 19:3. [3] [46] Of the 19 aircraft claimed during aerial combat, 16 were MiG-17s and three were MiG-21s. [42]