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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]
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