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 Post subject: Saga Of The Skyraider
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Tripped over this tonight on Youtube and thought you guys might enjoy it.


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Dan Jones wrote:
Tripped over this tonight on Youtube and thought you guys might enjoy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IxUUSKjcT4



Impressive number of "SPAD spouses" in the audience.

Gonna' keep the SPAD love going with...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcbcHJpIHU0

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Bernie Fisher and the surviving squadron members telling the story of the A Shau Valley rescue where Fisher landed his Spad to pick up another pilot and was subsequently awarded the Medal of Honor.

(Fisher's airplane is on display at the USAFM in Dayton.)


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Bernie Fisher and the surviving squadron members telling the story of the A Shau Valley rescue where Fisher landed his Spad to pick up another pilot and was subsequently awarded the Medal of Honor.


Talk about great big giant brass ones!!
Amazing.
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AFAIK, Skyraider 649 in Dayton is the only surviving airplane associated with a MoH event. There are supposedly helicopters, although I can’t quote the specific events, but no other airplanes (either destroyed or scrapped).

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I love that they refer to the Skyraider's duration of military service as "a record-breaking two decades."

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Of course the film is likely from 68 or 69 based on the USN's final cruise with the A-1H/J.

Let's see, in US service, first flight 1945 and final turnover to the VNAF in late 1972 (27 yrs). If you include use by the French/French allies I think that takes the story out to aprox 1981 (36 yrs).

It's no DC-3 or B-52, but impressive for a fighter/attack aircraft. The P-51 would have been a tad longer when Caribbean use is considered. Cool topic to ponder.

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Ken wrote:
AFAIK, Skyraider 649 in Dayton is the only surviving airplane associated with a MoH event. There are supposedly helicopters, although I can’t quote the specific events, but no other airplanes (either destroyed or scrapped).

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When the National Warplane Museum was at Elmira they received UH-1 s/n 66-00528 in which Rodney Yano won the MoH. For inexplicable reasons they got rid of it and replaced it with a generic UH-1. I think 528 is now at one of the Army facilities.

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Ken wrote:
Of course the film is likely from 68 or 69 based on the USN's final cruise with the A-1H/J.

Let's see, in US service, first flight 1945 and final turnover to the VNAF in late 1972 (27 yrs). If you include use by the French/French allies I think that takes the story out to aprox 1981 (36 yrs).

It's no DC-3 or B-52, but impressive for a fighter/attack aircraft. The P-51 would have been a tad longer when Caribbean use is considered. Cool topic to ponder.


I'm looking at it of the perspective of something like the F-15, which has been on active service for 45 years so far, and the F-16 for 40 years so far. Neither aircraft has a legit retirement date in sight...and new orders for the F-15EX have just been placed.

When I heard "a record breaking two decades", I thought, "awwww, how quaint. Now double it...and keep going."

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AirJimL2 wrote:
Rodney Yano won the MoH.


Not trying to be pedantic, but medals for valor are not "won". It isn't the Olympics.

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AirJimL2 wrote:
Rodney Yano won the MoH.


Not trying to be pedantic, but medals for valor are not "won". It isn't the Olympics.


Sorry, would awarded be the correct term?

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AirJimL2 wrote:
Sorry, would awarded be the correct term?

Jim

No need to be sorry, I wasn't intending it as pointed criticism of you specifically.

Most folks say that such medals were "awarded".

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