KB-29 refueling F-84E over Korea c1952

A U.S. Air Force Republic Republic F-84E-25-RE Thunderjet (s/n 51-485) from the 49th or 474th Fighter-Bomber Group refueling from a Boeing KB-29M Superfortress (from the 43rd Bombardement Wing?) over Korea. Operation "High Tide", which saw the first aerial refueled strike missions, began in May 1952 when twelve F-84Es flew non-stop from Japan to bomb targets in North Korea. In the same year, aerial refueled "Fox Peter" operations began flying F-84Gs non-stop across the Pacific. The F-84Es had refuelable outboard tanks that had to be refueled seperately with the "probe-and-drouge"-system, whereas the F-84Gs used the boom-system to refuel all tanks. The depicted F-84E 51-485 was lost when it crashed after bomb run on 12 April 1953. The pilot was killed.

Date

c. 1952

Photographer / author

USAF

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

image

Original size

1,800 × 1,020 pixels

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