MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | Republic_F-105D-5-RE_(SN_59-1719)_in_flight_060901-F-1234S-010.jpg (1800x1199) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: Republic F-105D-5-RE (SN 59-1719) in flight 060901-F-1234S-010.jpg Republic F-105D-5-RE s/n 59-1719 in flight This aircraft was shot down over Laos on 16 January 1966 while being assigend to the 354th Tactical Fighter Squadron 355th Tactical Fighter Wing Takhli RTAFB The pilot Captain Wood was one of a flight of five F-105s on a photo reconnaissance over Xieng Khouang Province Laos While over the target the flight received 37mm antiaircraft fire on their passes over the target and Captain Wood's plane was suddenly missing A Pathet Lao source interrogated in Laos in 1974 described the recovery of a U S airman who ejected from an aircraft hit by flak from the Pathet Lao Regional Headquarters at Phou Kout The airman reportedly died shortly after capture USAF museum http //www nationalmuseum af mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/060901-F-1234S-010 jpg USAF Original work of the US Federal Government - public domain PD-USGov Republic F-105D Thunderchief 355th Fighter Wing United States Air Force | ||||
_in_flight_060901-F-1234S-010.jpg){kind=link}
