5 May 1969 – A USAF North American F-100D-70-NA Super Sabre, #56-3214, one of two Super Sabres from the 452nd TFS/81st TFW out of RAF Lakenheath, was on a gunnery mission over Holbeach Range, Cambs., UK. The plane suffered engine failure, forcing pilot Capt. R.E. Riggs to eject. The jet fighter impacted into farmland, missing
2 MAY 1967 MAJOR F.D. HOWARD and SSGT T.P. KULICK (photographer) were flying an F-100F of the 352nd TFS, 35th TFW out of Phan Rang on a close air support mission and were hit by ground fire at 750-feet in a napalm run. MAJOR HOWARD flew the burning aircraft clear of the target near Cam […]
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1 May 1960. Pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down by an S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) surface-to-air missile over Sverdlovsk. Powers was flying the U-2 spy plane which flew espionage missions at altitudes of 70,000 feet (21 km), supposedly above the reach of Soviet air defenses. As Powers flew near Kosulino in the Ural Region, three
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1 May 1960 – Near Degtyansk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, a Central Intelligence Agency/Lockheed U-2C, 56-6693, “Article 360,” flying at approximately 80,000 feet (24,384 meters) on a Top Secret reconnaissance mission, was hit by shrapnel from an exploding Soviet V-750VN (S-75 Desna) surface-to-air missile. With his airplane damaged and out of control, pilot Francis Gary Powers