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5 April 1968 – To protest the lack of an aerial display to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Air Force…and to demonstrate against the government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Flight Lieutenant Alan Pollock of the RAF’s No. 1(F) Squadron makes an unauthorized display flight in a Hawker Hunter. This […]

According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, “on April 4, 1971, then 1Lt Smith was the pilot of a single-seat F-100D (#563120) aircraft as the leader in a flight of two aircraft on a combat mission over Cambodia [Kampong Thum Province]. While making a pass over the target, the pilot of the other aircraft noted

  April 3, 1965. Major George Craig Smith was born in St. Louis, MO on March 6, 1940, and was known as “Crockett” to family and friends. Three days prior to his 25th birthday he was Killed in Action when his F-100D took AAA fire and crashed. Smith had been stationed with the 615 TFS