On June 16, 1970, SSgt. Deverton C. Cochran was team leader and SP4 Carl J. Laker the assistant team leader of a reconnaissance team from Company H, 75th Infantry, 1st Cavalry Divison on an area search mission in Cambodia.
1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry also know as the Bullwhip Squadron was an aerial reconnaissance cavalry [...]
Major John R. Schumann was an advisor from Headquarters, MACV, and his job was assisting a village chief in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam. On June 16, 1965, he was in an automobile with the village chief while the unit they were overseeing was operating about 5 miles northeast of the city
of Vinh Long along [...]
In the spring of 1964, Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese forces launched attacks against Neutralist forces on the Plain of Jars in Xiangkhoang Province, Laos, prompting Neutralist General Kong Le to warn the Royal Lao Government that without air support the situation was hopeless, mostly because the troops of the Royal Lao Army had fled. [...]
The Douglas A1 Skyraider (”Spad”) is a highly maneuverable, propeller driven aircraft designed as a multipurpose attack bomber or utility aircraft. The E model generally carried two crewmen. The A1 was first used by the Air Force in its Tactical Air Command to equip the first Air Commando Group engaged in counterinsurgency operations in South [...]
On this day in 1966, Theodore Eugene Kryszak, Russell D. Martin; Harold E. Mullins; Luther L.
Rose; Harding E. Smith; Ervin Warren, all crew members on an AC47 gunship assigned to the 4th Air Commando Squadron at Ubon Airfield, Thailand, went missing.
Capt. Theodore E. Kryszak was the pilot of an AC47 gunship assigned to the 4th [...]