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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.
Four crewmen perished: Instructor Pilot - Captain J.W.Faulconer, Pilot - Lt. L.G. Sawyers, Co-Pilot - Lt. D.T. Sutton, Lt. F.J Hixenbaughand. A law passed by the 116th Congress (PL 116-167) in their honor allowed passed on Sept. 21, 2020, named the ridge of the crash site “B-47 Ridge” and allowed a memorial plaque to be placed at the site.
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 unarmed RF-8A proved good at getting low-altitude detailed photographs, leading to carrier deployments as detachments from the Navy's VFP-62 and VFP-63 squadrons and the Marines' VMCJ-2. [20] Beginning on 23 October 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis , RF-8As flew extremely hazardous low-level photo reconnaissance missions over Cuba, the ...
The remains of a Vietnam War pilot were identified a half century after his plane vanished, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Wednesday in a statement. U.S. Marine Corps Capt ...
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.