As of 31 December 2024 the Super Sabre Society will be no more. We had a good run and the stories of our F-100 pilots will live on. Many thanks to Jack Paddock of Heart and Soul Web Design (https://heartandsoulwebdesign.com/) for the design and management of our site. After 31 December, the site will be
William Carl Buerk was born on February 15, 1940, in Los Angeles, CA and joined the USAF in 1962. He was assigned to the 614th TFS out of Phan Rang. While on a mission in F-100D (#562937) his aircraft was hit by gunfire and crashed. Buerk was Declared Dead while Missing. He was posthumously given […]
Labeled as “the biggest single action over Vietnam War”, on this date B-52 bombers hit Vinh the second largest port city. Eight B-52’s each capable of carrying 3500 tons of bombs raided the town. The raid was purported to be President Nixon’s way of showing that the U.S. still had power in Vietnam. It was
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9 April 1971 – The last major airmobile operation of the Vietnam war, Operation Lam Son 719, ends after North Vietnamese Army forces drive all South Vietnamese forces out of Laos with heavy casualties and the loss of multiple US aircraft, especially in US Army helicopters. The success of the operation has been called into