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South Vietnamese assumption of responsibility for tactical air control, a process in which FACs, trained in South Vietnam and flying newly acquired O–1s, played a key part—moved ahead during 1970.
8 cze 2012 · As a nine-year-old, Kim Phuc was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Ut as she fled in pain from a misdirected napalm attack against her village by South Vietnamese planes in 1972.
3 cze 2012 · Nick Ut / The Associated Press, 1972 In this June 8, 1972 file photo, bombs with a mixture of napalm and white phosphorus jelly dropped by Vietnamese Air Force Skyraider bombers explode...
1967 USS Forrestal fire - Wikipedia. On 29 July 1967, a fire broke out on board the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal after an electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on an F-4B Phantom to fire, striking an external fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk.
Escape to U Taphao. In the final days of the Vietnam war, chaos and heroism converged in the effort to evacuate U.S.-supplied aircraft. Ralph Wetterhahn. January 1997. The A-37 Dragonfly was a...
19 sie 2020 · Accidental fires ignited three U.S. aircraft carriers during the Vietnam War, killing 206 American sailors and injuring 631 others.
In June and July, South Vietnamese forces counterattacked. When a sky raider flying over the village of [Trang Bang] mistakenly dropped four canisters of napalm over highway one, 50 yards from the temple where civilians were sheltering, 21-year-old AP photographer Nick Ut was there.
