You didn't specify North or South Vietnam nor which type of aircraft; choppers or fixed wing (or jets or propeller driven airplanes). However, Rolling Thunder ended in November '68 and by 1967 roughly 1,000 US jets/prop attack planes had been downed over both North & South VN.
No US Marine Corps jets were lost over the north because they only bombed in S VN to support their ground Marines. The only losses over the north were USN/USAF and assorted rescue choppers (like the Jolly Green giants).
'67/'68 was also a transitioning time frame for US aviation forces. The USN propeller driven A1 Skyraider (a dive bomber) was being phased out by the A4 Skyhawk (Senator McCain's jet) and A7 Corsair II...and all of the jets were being phased out by the F4 Phantom II Vietnam.
All of the jets in Vietnam meaning: F100 Super Sabre, F101 Voodoo, F102 Delta Dagger, F104 Starfighter, F105 Thunderchief, F8 Crusader and even the A6 Intruder. The Phantom could handle them all!
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The Hanoi Hilton prison camps were primarily used to detain American prisoners of war (POWs) during the Vietnam War. The prisoners were predominantly American military personnel, including pilots and soldiers, who were captured by the North Vietnamese forces. Some prisoners from other countries, such as South Vietnam, South Korea, and Australia, were also held in these camps.
A lot, aat least 5,000. But all pilots were potential kamikaze pilots.
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A naval battle of WW2, in which trainee (new) Japanese Navy Pilots were shot down by experienced US Navy Pilots. Japan had lost most of their experienced combat pilots at the Battle of Midway.
Social Legislation slowed down because of the cost of Vietnam. (Apex)
It was probably the term, "May-Day" that was used the most; by pilots and aircrewmen when they were shot down in either South or North Vietnam.
Vietnam consisted of four wars: The Air War over North Vietnam; the Riverine War in South Vietnam; the Ground War in South Vietnam; and the Covert War in Laos & Cambodia. Nearly all of the 600 plus US POW's consisted of shot down pilots and aircrewmen. These men were shot down over North Vietnam while fighting the "air war."
The Hanoi Hilton prison camps were primarily used to detain American prisoners of war (POWs) during the Vietnam War. The prisoners were predominantly American military personnel, including pilots and soldiers, who were captured by the North Vietnamese forces. Some prisoners from other countries, such as South Vietnam, South Korea, and Australia, were also held in these camps.
The Vietnam War hands down. Those Vietcong are crazy.
Down - Stone Temple Pilots song - was created in 1999.
North Vietnamese newspapers during the Vietnam War primarily focused on supporting the Communist cause and government, criticizing American aggression, and highlighting military victories against the South Vietnamese and American forces. They aimed to rally the population, boost morale, and shape public opinion in favor of their cause.
During WWII, if any pilot saw his buddies hanging in their parachutes being shot at by enemy aircraft, the chances are he will shoot down that enemy plane and kill the pilot hanging in his parachute in retribution. Since dogfight warfare was all about the numbers of shooting down aircraft, most pilots feel unconfortable about killing parachuting enemy pilots but that's not to say it didn't happen.
German pilots who were shot down over Britain in both World Wars became prisoners of war if still alive after crashing or landing. Exactly the same happened to British pilots shot down over Germany.
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Undoubtedly the Germans. British pilots shot down almost always parachuted to safety. German pilots shot down parachuted to imprisonment.
That UAV's by the hundreds were flown over North Vietnam during the war; and North Vietnamese Air Force MiG pilots shot some of them down for "Dog-fighting" (aerial combat) practice. One NVAF MiG pilot has officially petitioned his military records to reflect his shooting down of one of the UAV's as "an air to air victory", thus adding to his aerial kills making him an ACE during the Vietnam War (5 aerial victories minimum, is needed for ACE status).
By communist infiltration, such as was occurring in Vietnam. Cuba's Castro, had sent his lieutenant, Che Guevara down to Central/South America, in the 1960's, to created "another" Vietnam in the American Hemisphere, he was stopped by US operations.