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F-100 Super Sabre Units of the Vietnam War (Paperback)
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F-100 Super Sabre Units of the Vietnam War (Paperback)
Series: Combat Aircraft
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Loot Price R515
Discovery Miles 5 150
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While the F-105 Thunderchief and F-4 Phantom flew the majority of
the fighter-bomber missions over North Vietnam, the Thunderchief's
service predecessor, the F-100 Super Sabre stayed on to fight the
air war in South Vietnam until June 1971. Although it was designed
as an air defence fighter, and was later given nuclear capability
as the mainstay of Tactical Air Command's deterrent posture, it was
the F-100's toughness, adaptability and reliability that made it
ideally suited to the incessant 'taxi-rank' close support and
counter-insurgency missions in Vietnam. The jet's four 20 mm cannon
and external loads of bombs, rockets and fire-bombs defeated many
enemy incursions, with US troops in contact expressing a preference
for the accuracy and skill of F-100 pilots to save them in
situations where ordnance had to be dropped very close to their own
lines. Many courageous deeds were performed, although 242 F-100s
and 87aircrew were lost in action. Used at the start of Operation
Rolling Thunder in March 1965 as an escort for F-105 strikes, the
Super Sabre fought MiGs and one pilot made a credible claim for a
MiG-17 destroyed, but the more capable F-4 Phantom II soon replaced
it in this role. The air-to-ground war was fought by F-100C/D/F
pilots from 21 TAC and Air National Guard squadrons at six bases in
South Vietnam and Thailand. From September 1965, a number of
two-seat F-100Fs were equipped to detect and pinpoint SA-2 missile
sites, and they led F-105s in to destroy them in hazardous missions
that founded the suppression of enemy air defences (SEAD)
techniques developed for F-105F and F-4C 'Wild Weasel' aircraft
later in the war. Other F-100Fs replaced fragile piston-engined
forward air control (FAC) aircraft, providing more survivable
high-speed airborne management of strike missions. Maj George Day,
awarded the Medal of Honor in 1973, was the first leader of this
'Misty FAC' unit. The aircraft's strengths and eccentricities will
be examined through analysis of its performance and the anecdotes
of those who flew and serviced it.
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