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English: A U.S. Marine Corps Douglas AD-2 Skyraider of Marine Attack Squadron 121 (VMA-121) at K-50 (Sokcho-ri) airport, 24 December 1951. The Skyraider in the foreground is from Headquarters Squadron Marine Air Group 33 (HEDRON-33).
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On 2 May 1951, Skyraiders made the only aerial torpedo attack of the war, hitting the Hwacheon Dam, then controlled by North Korea. [ 13 ] On 16 June 1953, a USMC AD-4 from VMC-1 piloted by Major George H. Linnemeier and CWO Vernon S. Kramer shot down a Soviet-built Polikarpov Po-2 biplane, the only documented Skyraider air victory of the war ...
A-1E (AF Serial No. 52-132649) following combat damage in Vietnam in 1967, prior to restoration and preservation by the National Museum of the United States Air Force A-1G at Hurlburt Field Douglas Skyraider parked at airport ramp. Thunder Over Michigan Air show, 2006. A-1E (AD-5) at Reno Air Races, 2007.
It was disestablished in 1993. Known as "The World Famous Fighting Tigers", VA-65 was one of the last medium attack squadrons to fly the A-6 Intruder and the A-1 Skyraider. It was the second squadron to be designated VA-65, the first VA-65 was redesignated from VA-6B on 27 July 1948 and would be redesignated as VA-25 on 1 July 1959. [1]
CAC CA-18 Mustang Mk 22 "Big Beautiful Doll", D-FBBD (ex-A68-192), collided in mid-air with Douglas A-1D Skyraider F-AZDP (ex-Bu. 124143) in Duxford, UK. Rob Davies, the pilot of the Mustang, bailed out, and his aircraft crashed in a nearby field. The pilot of the Skyraider managed to safely land the damaged aircraft, despite losing its right ...
An AD-4 Skyraider of VA-115 crashes aboard USS Philippine Sea (CV-47). 12 December A U.S. Navy Douglas AD-4 Skyraider of Attack Squadron 115 "Arabs", Carrier Air Group 11 (CVG-11), bursts into flame as the engine breaks off upon landing aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Philippine Sea (CV-47). The Skyraider had been hit by enemy flak over ...
An American war correspondent, William H. Graham was the aviation editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, [1] and covered the Pacific airlift of the Korean War.. He drowned following the March 3, 1951 failed take-off of an Douglas Skyraider, from USS Princeton that left the pilot injured.