Two F-100 pilots lost 4 years apart. On this day in 1967, 1st Lieutenant Joseph Daniel “Joe” Adrian flying F-100D #55-3611 was on a night scramble from the Tuy Hoa Runway, Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam. About six miles from the end of the runway over the South China Sea, his aircraft crashed. First Lieutenant
14 April 1986: In response to several acts of international terrorism sponsored by the Libyan regime of Muammar Khadafi, the United States launched Operation El Dorado Canyon. Along with A-6E Intruders, F/A-18 Hornets and A-7 Corsair IIs from the aircraft carriers USS America and USS Coral Sea, 24 General Dynamics F-111F Aardvarks of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing from RAF […]
April 9, 1959 – Capt Virgil I. Grissom, Lt. Cdr Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Lt M. Scott Carpenter, Lt Cdr Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Major Donald K. Slayton, Major John H. Glenn, Jr., and Capt. L. Gordon Cooper are chosen as the Mercury 7. Shepard became the first American in space by making a suborbital
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April 7, 1968 – Thomas F. Tapman “Misty 1” was in F-100D #563839 with Eben D. Jones “Misty 25” when they were hit by 35mm Anti-Aircraft Artillery. Tapman remembers “I was shot down on 7 April 1968 at the top of Mu Ghia Pass while flying Misty in an F-100F. Misty was a special Forward
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