![]() ![]() of fighter squadron VF-96 of the aircraft carrier USS Constellation, after a difficult scrap with MiG-17s of the 923rd FR, hit one with an AIM-9G Sidewinder heat-seeking AAM and were credited with their second confirmed victory of the war. Elsewhere, escorting a strike on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, F-4J crewmen Lt. Although he was rushed to Military Hospital 108 near Hanoi, he died of his injures on May 11. He veered off and made for a water-filled ditch but crashed. Its pilot, Vo Si Giap of the 921st FR, tried to force-land when he saw he was coming down on Thuong Trung Secondary School. Day of AcesĪ more clear-cut victory that day was a MiG-21MF hit by one of two AIM-7E-2 Sparrow radar-guided air-to-air missiles launched by Maj. Neither VPAF claim has a corresponding American loss. On the VPAF side, Nguyen Ngoc Tiep was credited with an F-4 while Nguyen Hong Son reportedly released his brake chute by mistake, then jettisoned his auxiliary fuel tanks and shot down another F-4 before landing. intelligence that the enemy fighter was down out of control. ![]() serving as his weapons systems operator (WSO), got into a confused dogfight with J-6s of the 925th Fighter Regiment (FR) near Yen Bai airfield, during which he saw a yellow parachute and got subsequent confirmation from U.S. ![]() Crews of the 13th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 432nd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, with Capt. Air Force and Navy battled Mikoyan-Gurevich fighters of the Vietnam People’s Air Force, which included their first encounter with Shenyang J-6s (Chinese license-built MiG-19s).Įscorting a strike on the Thac Ba hydroelectric plant, Maj. That same day, McDonnell F-4 Phantom IIs of both the U.S. President Richard Nixon announced on May 8 the full resumption of bombing North Vietnam’s supply centers and logistical routes. Army and Navy Pilots Joined Together in a Day of Duels Over Vietnam CloseĪmong other responses to North Vietnam’s invasion of South Vietnam on March 30, 1972, U.S. ![]()
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