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Friends Journal (Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc.)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614077
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Volume: 17
Issue: 4
Item Creation Date: Winter 1994-1995
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
Friends Journal (Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc.)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614078
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Volume: 28
Issue: 1
Item Creation Date: Spring 2005
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
Friends Journal (Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc.)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614079
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Volume: 28
Issue: 3
Item Creation Date: Fall 2005
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
Friends Journal (Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc.)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614080
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Volume: 28
Issue: 3
Item Creation Date: Fall 2005
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
Friends Journal (Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc.)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614081
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Volume: 37
Issue: 1
Item Creation Date: Spring 2014
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
Friends Journal (Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc.)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614082
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Volume: 38
Issue: 1
Item Creation Date: Spring 2015
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
Friends Journal (Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc.)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614083
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Volume: 38
Issue: 2
Item Creation Date: Summer 2015
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
Friends Journal (Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc.)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614084
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Volume: 39
Issue: 1
Item Creation Date: Spring 2016
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
Friends Journal (Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc.)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614085
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Volume: 41
Issue: 1
Item Creation Date: Spring 2018
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
Friends Journal (Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc.)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614086
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Volume: 43
Issue: 3
Item Creation Date: Summer 2020
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
Friends Journal (Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc.)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614087
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Volume: 44
Issue: 1
Item Creation Date: Winter 2021
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
AAHS Journal (American Aviation Historical Society)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614088
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Volume: 55
Issue: 2
Item Creation Date: Summer 2010
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
AAHS Journal (American Aviation Historical Society)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614089
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Volume: 56
Issue: 2
Item Creation Date: Summer 2011
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
AAHS Journal (American Aviation Historical Society)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614090
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Volume: 56
Issue: 4
Item Creation Date: Winter 2011
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
AAHS Journal (American Aviation Historical Society)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614091
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Volume: 58
Issue: 2
Item Creation Date: Summer 2013
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
AAHS Journal (American Aviation Historical Society)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614092
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Volume: 59
Issue: 2
Item Creation Date: Summer 2014
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
AAHS Journal (American Aviation Historical Society)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614093
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Volume: 62
Issue: 3
Item Creation Date: Fall 2017
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
AAHS Journal (American Aviation Historical Society)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614094
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Volume: 66
Issue: 1
Item Creation Date: Spring 2021
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 27 Aug 2024 [Updated: 27 Aug 2024]
The Voice of POWS and MIAs (Voices in Vital America (VIVA)) - Los Angeles, California
Newspaper Item Number: 1974Newspaper620772
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Volume: 2
Issue: 2
Item Creation Date: March 1973
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 28 Aug 2024 [Updated: 28 Aug 2024]
Air & Space Power History (Air Force Historical Foundation)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614120
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Volume: 69
Issue: 2
Item Creation Date: Summer 2022
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 28 Aug 2024 [Updated: 28 Aug 2024]
Journal of Military History (Virginia Military Institute ; George C. Marshall Foundation for the American Military Institute)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614136
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Volume: 67
Issue: 1
Item Creation Date: January 2003
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 28 Aug 2024 [Updated: 28 Aug 2024]
Air & Space Power Journal (Air University Press)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614140
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Volume: 17
Issue: 4
Item Creation Date: Winter 2003
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 28 Aug 2024 [Updated: 28 Aug 2024]
Air & Space Power Journal (Air University Press)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614141
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Volume: 17
Issue: 4
Item Creation Date: Winter 2003
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 28 Aug 2024 [Updated: 28 Aug 2024]
Colonel Bob Krone 100th Mission Over North Vietnam
Moving Image Item Number: 1974VI4590
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Footage of Colonel Bob Krone's 100th mission over North Vietnam as an F-105 pilot on 3 June 1966. The video includes an introduction and conclusion by Colonel Krone recorded in March 2008 at March Field Air Museum in Riverside, CA, as well as narration from Colonel Krone throughout.
Item Creation Date: March 2008
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 13 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
Bob Huntley and Ralph Stearman - Weasels
Moving Image Item Number: 1974VI4592
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An interview with Wild Weasel F-105 pilot Bob Huntley and electronic warfare officer Ralph Stearman. The two men discuss their experiences working with the AGM-45 Shrike missile and its importance for their missions in Vietnam.
Item Creation Date: 16 August 2004
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 13 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 7
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4686
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Item is the 7th reel in a series of 16. Two pilots were interviewed on this reel.

Items discussed include Joint Chiefs of Staff target packages; ammunition supplies; objectives in Vietnam (too many restrictions); fighter pilot skills; types of munitions on different targets; and the F-105.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 15 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 8
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4687
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This reel is 8 of 16. Only a very little of side one is recorded. It contains the last part of Captain Will Snell's interview. There is nothing on side two.

Items discussed include the base in the early days and the variations in weapons (usually caused by shortages).
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 15 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
Zebra One, Wild Weasel Stearman, and F-105D Sisney
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4704
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Radio transmissions

Track 1 - 42:27
Zebra 01 (Ed Capelli) Goes Down
Wild Weasel Cockpit Tape: Huntley/Stearman
F-105D Cockpit Tape: Vern Sisney
Barracuda 03 - Huntley/Stearman

Track 2 - 30:28
Vern Sisney (Bison 02)
Item Creation Date: 17 November 1967
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 15 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
Time (Asia Edition) (Time, Inc.)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614149
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[Number of Pages: 80]
Cover Story - Baseball: The Year They Made a Game of It Baltimore Manager Bauer
Color: Toyo
Art
Books
Cinema
Education
The Hemisphere
The Law
Letters
Milestones
Modern Living
Music
People
Press
Religion
Science
Show Business
Sport
Time Listings
The U.S.
U.S. Business

The World
South Viet Nam - New Phase
Laos - A Long Walk Home

World Business
Volume: 84
Issue: 11
Item Creation Date: September 11, 1964
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 29 Aug 2024 [Updated: 07 Oct 2025]
Douglas Lauck Photos and Info
Electronic Media Item Number: 1974EM1545
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FOLDER F:\Lauck Photos\
FILE Orders back.bmp
FILE Orders.bmp
FILE Thumbs.db
FILE a 2005.jpg
FILE b1 To SEA 1964.bmp
FILE b2 Korat 1964 2.bmp
FILE b3 Korat Qtrs..bmp
FILE b4 Field Repairs Graben.bmp
FILE c Korat 1964.bmp
FILE d Combat F-105.bmp
FILE e F-105 T.O..bmp
FILE f 1965 TAKHLI.bmp
FILE f Mission.bmp
FILE g 100 #12.bmp
FILE h 100 Missions.bmp
FILE i DFC #2.bmp
FILE k PCS Itazuki.jpg
FILE l PCS Yokota.jpg
FILE m TDY Takhli.jpg
FILE n TDY.jpg
FILE o TDY 2.jpg
FILE plunkett info.jpg
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 14 Aug 2024 [Updated: 19 Aug 2024]
Home With Honor: Thirty Years of Freedom
Moving Image Item Number: 1974VI4589
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Home with Honor: Thirty Years of Freedom DVD Presentation
560th Flying Training Squadron, Randolph Air Force Base

Freedom Flyer Reunions
2003 - 3:31
2002 - 2:55
2001 - 4:17
2000 - 4:50
1999 - 3:08
1998 - 5:53
1997 - 5:44
1996 - 2:17

The Call and Honor to Serve - 5:47

Air Tattoo Stage Performance
Honor to Serve - 3:02
Proud to be an American - 3:07
Last Full Devotion - 2:52
Item Creation Date: ca. 2003
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 13 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 6
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4685
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Item is the 6th reel in a series, only side one of the reel is used. The first side continues with the discussion on the bailout of Lt. Ken Thomas.

The group discusses what should be in a survival kit; extra clothes that may be of value; the good of survival training; and whether or not untrained people should attempt to guide or make maneuvers with a parachute. They speak of the weather and the terrain.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 15 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 9
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4688
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This is the 9th reel in a series of 16. The first part of side one of this reel has a lecture to the squadron pilots on navigation, photo interpretation, and map reading for Southeast Asia. It sounds like the lecturer is using maps his audience cannot see and walking back and forth away from the microphone. There are also sounds of F-105 aircraft arming and taking off and general chatter at Major William E. Cooper's promotion party.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 15 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 10
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4689
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This reel is 10th in a series of 16. Item contains an interview with Captain Kimminau, forward air controller of an O-1E unit.

The discussion is directed on how targets are found and marked, methods of locating hard to see targets, forward air controller training, the various target areas worked, and what you have to look out for in the way of enemy fire.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 15 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 12
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4691
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Item is the 12th reel in a series of audio tapes. This one is a briefing on the Wild Weasel I Vector System.

This briefing is hard to hear as the speaker seems to be too far from the microphone. It is presented by Captain White and is on the Wild Weasel I APR25/APR26 Vector System being installed in the F-105 aircraft.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 15 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 13
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4692
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Item is a taped audio reel of the radio transmissions of a Surface to Air Missile suppression mission.

The tape machine in in the F-100 Wild Weasel aircraft. They are talking to the Iron Hand (F-105 aircraft). This was a Joint Chiefs of Staff mission run on 8 May 1966. Lt. Grey of Bamboo Flight (Bamboo 2) was shot down.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 15 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 15
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4694
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Reel 15 in a series of 16 reels. This one has an interview with a pilot of the unit who was shot down and had to bail out over Laos.

Lt. Dick Hackford was on a mission over Laos to targets in North Vietnam. He was flying behind the strike fighters with a camera equipped fighter. He was hit and had to eject. He tells the story of the whole rescue sequence of events.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 15 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
Aviation History (Weider History Group)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614148
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[Number of Pages: 74]
At Home in the Blue Vault by Stephen Wilkinson - Legendary fighter pilot Robin Olds was a thron in the side of every Air Force general who wanted nothing more than the status quo.
A Bad Day for Flying by Alan Foster
Edward Steichen Goes to War by Nan Siegel
Flight of the Spokane Sun God by Daniel L. Rust
Building a Better Navy Jet by E. R. Johnson

Departments
Mailbag
Briefing
Flight Test by Jon Guttman
Milestones
Aviators by Michele May
Gallery by Dick Smith
Letter froom Aviation History
Modeling by Dick Smith
Extremes by Jon Guttman
Reviews
Airware by Bernard Dy
Nose Art
Volume: 18
Issue: 3
Item Creation Date: January 2008
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 29 Aug 2024 [Updated: 28 Oct 2025]
Thud Pilot: F-105 Combat Memoirs of Col. Vic Vizcarra
Electronic Media Item Number: 1974EM1538
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Thud Pilot: Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base, 1966

Prelude
Introduction
Chapter 1 - First Deployment
Chapter 2 - First Real Combat Mission
Chapter 3 - Mid-Air Refueling, "Pussy Galor"
Chapter 4 - Dien Bien Phu, Prelude to SAM Strike
Chapter 5 - First Battle Damage
Chapter 6 - Going Way Up North
Chapter 7 - Third Deployment, See the Flak
Chapter 8 - Clipper 2 is Down
Chapter 9 - Three in a Row
Chapter 10 - Mayday, Mayday, Mayday
Chapter 11 - Any Landing You Can Walk Away From
Chapter 12 - The Home Front, The Real Heroes
Epilogue
Appendix A - Thud Honor Roll
Appendix B - F-105 Combat Statistics
Appendix C - Letter From Pops
Appendix D - Fighter Pilot Buffoonery
Item Creation Date: 2000
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 14 Aug 2024 [Updated: 19 Aug 2024]
Douglas Lauck Southeast Asia Photos
Electronic Media Item Number: 1974EM1544
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FOLDER F:\Lauck Photos\
FILE 1 2005 photo.jpg
FILE 10 korat 66.bmp
FILE 11 korat 66.bmp
FILE 12 korat 66.bmp
FILE 13 korat 66 2c.bmp
FILE 14 Mission 66.bmp
FILE 15 100 #12.bmp
FILE 17 100 Missions.bmp
FILE 18 DFC #2.bmp
FILE 19 PCS Itazuki.jpg
FILE 2 To SEA 1964.bmp
FILE 20 PCS Yokota.jpg
FILE 21 TDY Takhli.jpg
FILE 22.jpg
FILE 23 TDY 2.jpg
FILE 24 Orders.bmp
FILE 25 Orders back.bmp
FILE 26 DFC #2.jpg
FILE 3 Korat 1964.bmp
FILE 4 Korat Qtrs..bmp
FILE 5 Field Repairs Graben.bmp
FILE 6 Korat 1964.bmp
FILE 7 Combat F-105.bmp
FILE 8 F-105 T.O..bmp
FILE 9 1965 TAKHLI.bmp
FILE 9a Takhli 1965.bmp
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 14 Aug 2024 [Updated: 19 Aug 2024]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 1
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4680
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The first reel of audio tape in a series of 16. The first part is an introduction to the series and an overview of what they are trying to accomplish in the interviews. The second part gives details of the types of missions flown and the areas of operation. Some missions are discussed in detail. The start of the first interview is near the end of the reel.

Items discussed: All flight leaders and pilots listed by name; the tour length (one year or one hundred missions); target areas, types of targets, how missions fragged, primary and alternate targets, target restrictions, how long it took to rescue a pilot who had bailed out; details of various missions; aircraft losses; landing with ordnance; and an interview with the first pilot who was nearing the one hundred mission mark.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 14 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 2
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4681
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Item is reel of audio tape with part of an interview of Major Robert W. Wilson and the complete interview of William P. May.

These interviews were conducted upon completion of 100 missions (frequently on the very day of completion). Areas discussed include standardization; the combat environment; training before arriving in Southeast Asia; conventional vs. nuclear delivery; tactics and flak suppression; target acquisition in Laos; armament on the F-105 (750lb bombs, napalm, CBU, GAM, etc.); a bomb damage assessment foul-up; and how gaggle tactics should be stopped (too many aircraft on a target). Wilson tells the whole story of being shot down and rescued.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 14 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 3
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4682
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This tape contains two different interviews of pilots who have finished their tours (100 mission mark) and a round table discussion of 5 pilots who have either completed their tours or are within a few missions of doing so.

Areas discussed include target analysis; the difference in effectiveness in early missions and late missions; missions being never routine in combat; weapons delivery training improvement (more in conventional weapons); the F-105 in combat; mission design not compatible with the ground fire of targets in Vietnam; ordnance (750lb bombs, CBUs, GAMs, and napalm); tactics needed for new SAM, the SA-3; finding initial positions in a new area being very difficult; and professionalism.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 15 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 5
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4684
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This tape, the 5th in the series, has a complete interview detailing the bailout and rescue of one of the pilots.

Lt. Ken Thomas tells the complete story of being shot down by enemy 37mm shells, how the aircraft was hit (F-105 Thunderchief), and went out of control causing him to go out upside down. He lost his helmet and something hit him in the head. He tells of the importance of his survival kit (the radio was number one). Other items in order of importance were the tape type nylon rope, survival knife, water bottles, gloves, and flares. He discusses the wind that delayed his pickup for 24 hours, how they kept guard over him all night, and even pulled a fake pickup to fool the enemy.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 15 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 11
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4690
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The 11th tape in a series of 16. This tape is the flight of Captain Chastain (Oak 3) when he was hit by enemy fire and received battle damage. This tape has the radio traffic of all agencies involved in his recovery at Udorn Search and Rescue Operations. This is a Joint Chiefs of Staff mission frequency recording.

Oak Flight had 3 aircraft. Oak 3 was Captain Chastain, who received a direct hit over the target: Bac Giang Bridge, just north of Hanoi. His afterburner was shot out and the aircraft tail hook was hanging down, but they managed to keep him in the air and recover him at Udorn. This tape is the back and forth transmissions on the aircraft radio while he was asking for and getting help.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 15 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 16
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4695
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This is reel 16 of a 16 reel series. This final reel contains the commanders summary. The Major tells about becoming commander when Lt. Col. William E. Cooper was shot down. He gives a recap on the number of missions flown by the unit, the type of missions, and flying hours. He tells of each man who got shot down, fully explains the mission, and how or when they got hit. There is a summary of ordnance expended, decorations approved and pending, Iron Hand operations and other tactics, utilization of inexperienced pilots in combat, and how flight leaders should have more options concerning targets. He discusses research and development on the F-105 and its need for an extra or backup radio communications system.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 15 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
On Point : The Journal of Army History (The Army Historical Foundation, Inc.)
Serial Item Number: 1974Serial614151
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[Number of Pages: 68]
Army Art Collection: Artwork of Samuel Johnson Woolf by Katie Holt
Army History: The Mad Russian: The Life and U.S. Army Service of Alexis ureyvitch Sommaripa by Paul Roberts
Ordnance: M3 Lee/Grant Medium Tank by Patrick Feng
Soldier: Adophus W. Greely by Melissa Ziobro
Unit: 1st Signal Brigade by Howard Bartholf
Members' Page
Museum Review: Iowa Gold Star Military Museum, Camp Dodge, Iowa by Michael W. Vogt
National Museum of the United States Army Update
Army History: Jayhawk Goes to War: VII Corps in Operation DESERT STORM by Peter S. Kindsvatter
Eyewitness: Fighting for the Dunker Church, Antietam, 17 September 1862
Post: Plattsburgh Barracks, Plattsburgh, New York by Brigadier General Raymond E. Bell, Jr., AUS-Ret.
Book Reivews
Army Almanac
Stray Rounds
Volume: 21
Issue: 2
Item Creation Date: Fall 2015
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 29 Aug 2024 [Updated: 02 Apr 2025]
Days of Battle
Electronic Media Item Number: 1974EM1557
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DAYS OF BATTLE
CONTENTS

Title Page
Preface/For Those Who Dared
Freedom Is Not Free
Military Beginnings
The Road To Silver Wings
The Road Ends - And War Begins
Combat Missions, Europe, 8th Air Force
European Air Tour
Visiting Britain

Years of Peace - If Not Plenty
Korean War Preface
Korean Combat Reminiscences

Introduction To My Third War
THUD RIDGE: The Book: an introduction
ROUTE PACK SIX: an article
DAY OF THE SAM: an article

A Warrior’s Prayer/ my prayer
My Third War / War Is An Ugly Thing
Thailand Postscript

Other Features of My Life
A Postscript To It All
Glossary

Prayer and Preservation
Other Recognition

Distinguished Flying Cross #1
Distinguished Flying Cross #2
Distinguished Flying Cross #3
Silver Star

Charge of the Flight Brigade
The Military Wife
High Flight / Flying
A Soldier Died Today
The Reunion
World War II Teamwork
Thanksgiving Day, 1950
A Decade of the Wall / my friends on The Wall
Voices In The Wind
Still The Noblest Calling
The Old Pilot’s Death
To My Brother, The Warrior
Air Force Hymn
Item Creation Date: 1942-1951 and 1966-1968
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 14 Aug 2024 [Updated: 19 Aug 2024]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 4
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4683
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This is the 4th tape in the series featuring a continuation of the round table discussion of a group of F-105 pilots who have completed their tours or are about to complete their final missions.

Items discussed include command being too remote; armament on the F-105; pilots in the field being not in on developments; the planning level of command should fly a mission once in a while; tactics are World War II tactics; too many aircraft being out before the strike aircraft; too many aircraft on target; flak suppression; the SA-3 surface-to-air missile; the F-105 in the small arms environment; and standardization not being valid in combat (must have more freedom and latitude, especially fighter aircraft). The last part of the tape is a mission that was recorded while the mission was in progress.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 15 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Oral History (Nov 1965 - May 1966) Reel 14
Audio Item Number: 1974AU4693
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Item is audio tape with interviews of fighter pilots and one flight surgeon. Most of the interviews deal with experiences during their tour at Korat, Thailand during the Southeast Asian conflict.

The first person interviewed was Lt. Nels Running who has flown three missions in the theater. He is questioned on the quality and type of training he received at the fighter weapons school. The next interviews are with Captain Bud Millner and Captain Glen Belew upon completion of their tours (over 100 missions). The next part of the tape is Major Jimmy Jones and Major Robert M. Krone describing a Joint Chiefs of Staff mission flown 24 April 1966 against the Bac Giang Bridge where the squadron lost two pilots. Captain Secker was interviewed. The squadron flight surgeon is interviewee Dr. Marshall J. Dyke. He discusses medication between missions, a concept not taught at flight surgeon's school.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: W. Howard Plunkett Collection
Association: Society of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
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Added: 15 Aug 2024 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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