23 April 1966 – The Vietnam People’s Air Force (VPAF) sent its first MiG-21 to intercept two B-66 Destroyers being escorted to their mission by a flight of F-4 Phantoms. (2) Neither side scored a kill in the engagement. However, also on April 23, 1966, large numbers of MiG encounters in the area had been
17 February 1968 – LTC B.M. Fields and CAPT W.D. Canup were serving with the 614TFS out of Phan Rang AB, Vietnam. On that day Fields and Canup were on a mission in F-100F #563959 to find enemy troops over SVN. The F-100F was hit by gunfire 5 miles SW of Can Tho City, and […]
16 February 1967 – Col Frank C. Buzze was serving with the 309TFS out of Tuy Hoa AB, Vietnam. Flying that day as Dusty 71, in F-100D #562907, he was headed on a mission to strike a Vietcong base camp when his aircraft was hit in the right wing by heavy automatic weapons (12.7mm AAA).
14 February 1951 – Major Raymond S. Wetmore, World War II ace with 21.25 kills, and commander of the 59th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Otis Air Force Base, Massachusetts, was killed this date in the crash of North American F-86A-5-NA Sabre, 48-0149, c/n 151-43517 at age 27. After a cross-country flight from Los Angeles, California, to