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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
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). Incidents in which the aircraft was damaged but repaired are not included.
English: This aircraft was shot down by a surface to air missile fired by the 72nd Battalion, 285th Air Defence Missile Regiment on 27 December 1972. The wreckage is part of a US Air Force B52, which crashed into this lake in downtown Hanoi.
The U.S. Air Force recently announced that the last squadrons of the legendary B-52's have returned home after concluding operations against ISIS. 11 photos of the legendary B-52 Stratofortress bomber
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 ...
On the very first Operation Arc Light mission flown by Boeing B-52 Stratofortress aircraft of SAC to hit a target in South Vietnam, a total of 30 B-52Fs depart Andersen AFB, Guam just after midnight, flying in ten cells of three aircraft, to hit a suspected Viet Cong stronghold in the Bến Cát District, 40 miles N of Saigon.
2008 Guam B-52 crash; O. 1968 Kadena Air Base B-52 crash; P. 1966 Palomares incident; S. 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash; T. 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash; U.
Hundreds gathered in Whittier Thursday to say goodbye to a Navy journalist whose remains were recovered from Vietnam five decades after his death.