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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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