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The RF-101C saw service during the Cuban Missile Crisis and soon followed the North American F-100 Super Sabres in October 1961, into combat when RF-101s from the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing deployed to south east Asia, performing reconnaissance flights over Laos and Vietnam. [81]
The last 45th TRS RF-101C left Tan Son Nhut on 16 November 1970. Det 1 460th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing Tan Son Nhut Air Base South Vietnam with RB-57E 55-4264, early 1968 The need for additional reconnaissance assets, especially those capable of operating at night, led to the deployment of two Martin RB-57E Canberra Patricia Lynn ...
North Vietnam, Sơn La Province: His RF-101C #56-0186 was hit by enemy fire, he successfully ejected and radioed that he was on the ground without serious injury. When the search and rescue helicopter approached the area they were unable to make radio contact with him [105] Presumptive finding of death [3] until August 2018 when he was ...
O-57 Grasshopper at the National Museum of the United States Air Force A de Havilland Mosquito PR Mk XVI (F-8) of the 654th BS, Eighth Air Force at RAF Watton, 1944 North American B-25D (F-10) Mitchell photographic reconnaissance and mapping aircraft North American P-51C-5-NT Mustang (F-6C) Serial No 42-103368 of the 15th TRS at St. Dizler Airfield, France, Autumn 1944.
A power unit next to an aircraft revetment exploded after being hit by a grenade and the resulting fire damaged an RF-101C aircraft. [ 3 ] : 10 VC mortar fire from outside the base was detected by counter-mortar radar and the mortar site was targeted by ARVN 105mm artillery , Vietnam Air Force A-1s and helicopters from the US Army 120th Assault ...
English: View of the flight line and the control tower at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam, in 1964. Visible aircraft are: the noses of two U.S. Air Force McDonnell RF-101C Voodoo from the 15th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, six Convair F-102A Delta Dagger, probably of the 16th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron,
F-101C. 56-0009 – Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, Texas. [citation needed] RF-101C RF-101C display at the Museum of Aviation, Robins AFB. 56-0048 – Selfridge Military Air Museum, Selfridge ANGB, Mount Clemens, Michigan [42] 56-0057 – Camp Robinson National Guard Armory, North Little Rock, Arkansas. [citation needed]
The unit transitioned to Republic RF-84F Thunderflashes from 1956-1958 and then to McDonnell RF-101 Voodoos, continuing its long history of photographic reconnaissance. During the Vietnam era the 15th Squadron was based at Kadena Air Base , Okinawa, flying the RF-101C.