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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
Nine B-52s that returned to U-Tapao airfield were too badly damaged to fly again. The number of B-52s that managed to return to Guam but were combat losses remains unknown. The overall B-52 loss is probably between 22 and 27. [105] During this operation, the VPAF launched 31 air sorties of which 27 were flown by MiG-21s and four were flown by ...
Vietnam Air Losses, United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps Fixed-Wing Aircraft Losses in Southeast Asia 1961-1973, 2001, Midland Publishing, Great Britain. ISBN 1-85780-115-6. Michel III, Marshal L. Clashes, Air Combat Over North Vietnam 1965-1972. Naval Institute Press. 1997.
The first mass B-52 raid directed against the north was ... the end of June 1972 the United States lost 52 aircraft over North Vietnam: ... losses (22 to MiGs, 5 ...
A Boeing B-52H Stratofortress in flight. The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has been operational with the United States Air Force since 5 June 1955. This list is of accidents and incidents involving the B-52 resulting in loss of life, severe injuries, or a loss of an aircraft (damaged beyond repair).
Missions were commonly flown in three-plane formations known as "cells". Releasing their bombs from the stratosphere, the B-52s could neither be seen or heard from the ground. B-52s were instrumental in destroying enemy concentrations besieging Khe Sanh in 1968, [2] and in 1972 at An Loc and Kontum. Bombs from B-52 Arc Light strike exploding
This is a list of notable fixed-wing military air combat losses since the end of the Vietnam War grouped by the year that the loss occurred. This list is intended for military aircraft lost due to enemy action during combat.
A senior United States Air Force officer implied that Heck was too scared to continue to fly over North Vietnam in light of the heavy losses of B-52s. But Heck said that fear had nothing to do with his decision: If they tell me now to go on milk runs, the B-52 targets over South Vietnam where nobody gets shot at, I would feel no different. I ...