Maintenance on a Douglas A-1G Skyraider of the 6th SOS (USAF) at Pleiku Air Base, Vietnam, in 1968 (342-USAF-47991)

Maintenance on a U.S. Air Force Douglas A-1G Skyraider (s/n 52-132528, "War Monger") of the 6th Special Oerations Squadron at Pleiku Air Base, South Vietnam, in 1968. * 133528 later served with the 1st SOS and was then transferred to the South Vietnamese Air Force where it served with the 516th and 518th Fighter Squadrons. It was one of eleven Skyraiders to escape to Thailand in late April 1975.

Date

1968

Photographer / author

U.S. Army Air Forces film 342-USAF-47991 "The Spad Story, Pleiku AB, Vietnam", 600th and 1365th Photographic Squadron, USAF

Archive

U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

image

Original size

1,200 × 897 pixels

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