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All told, the U.S. Air Force flew 5.25 million sorties over South Vietnam, North Vietnam, northern and southern Laos, and Cambodia, losing 2,251 aircraft: 1,737 to hostile action, and 514 in accidents. 2,197 of the losses were fixed-wing, and the remainder rotary-wing. The USAF sustained approximately 0.4 losses per 1,000 sorties during the ...
Pages in category "United States Air Force personnel killed in the Vietnam War" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
William Joseph Crumm (September 20, 1919 – July 6, 1967), was a United States Air Force major general who was killed in July 1967, during the Vietnam War.General Crumm commanded the 3d Air Division from 1965 until his death in a B-52 mid-air collision with another B-52 bomber over the South China Sea.
American military personnel killed in the Vietnam War (1955–1975). Subcategories. ... United States Air Force personnel killed in the Vietnam War (18 P)
A U.S. Air Force Douglas C-124C Globemaster II, 52-968, of the 28th Air Transport Squadron, [180] en route from Tachikawa Air Force Base near Tokyo, Japan, to Hickam Air Force Base, Honolulu, Hawaii with nine on board and 11 tons of cargo, disappears over the Pacific Ocean after making a fuel stop at Wake Island. Due at Hickam at 0539 hrs.
The year of 1967 started badly for the Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF). During the early years of the war, the rules of engagement prevented U.S. fighter-bombers from hitting North Vietnamese air bases, and that allowed North Vietnamese fighter pilots to attack American bomber formations as they were approaching their targets, thereby forcing U.S. pilots to jettison their bomb loads before ...
He was the first and only Marine Corps division commander to be killed in any war. He was also the first American general officer to be killed in Vietnam, although U.S. Air Force Major General William Crumm had been killed on July 24, 1967, in a B-52 bomber collision over the South China Sea. [1]
January 17 – An F/A-18C Hornet (Bureau Number 163484) was shot down by an Iraqi Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 in an air-to-air engagement. The pilot, Lieutenant Commander Michael Scott Speicher, of VFA-81 was killed but his body was not found until July 2009.