by admin | May 8, 2020 | Special Topics
Forward Air Controllers Thirty six RAAF pilots flew as FACs – Forward Air Controllers – in South Vietnam. They were selected from fighter pilots with at least two tours and served with the USAF for terms varying from six months to a year. As ‘on...
by admin | May 8, 2020 | Special Topics
F-4E Phantom The McDonnell Douglas PHANTOM II was the fighter aircraft of the 1960s and 1970s. Designed as a fighter aircraft for the US Navy, it was used in many roles: fighter, interceptor, fighter-bomber, reconnaissance, tanker, drone, defence suppression and laser...
by admin | May 7, 2020 | Special Topics
2 SQN Canberras In Vietnam No 2 Squadron deployed from Butterworth, Malaysia to Phan Rang air base, 35 kilometres south of Cam Ranh Bay, a large USAF base in the far east of South Vietnam, on 19 April 1967. 2 SQN ‘Magpies’ were part of the 35th Tactical...
by admin | May 7, 2020 | Special Topics
9SQN Operations At Long Tan Although a severe tropical storm was developing during the day of 18 August 1966, 9 Squadron started the day with normal squadron activities; two Iroquois moved from VungTau to Nui Dat, Australian Army Base on standby duties and to...
by admin | May 5, 2020 | Historic Events
By Melissa Cunningham Tributes are flowing for Australian publisher and much-decorated military pilot Peter Stuart Isaacson who died on Friday. Mr Isaacson started out as a messenger boy at The Age at the tender age of 16 and finished his media career as the largest...
