"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
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On 15 Jan 2004 22:18:19 GMT, (Smartace11) wrote:

By all respect to all Thud or Scooter drivers of Vietnam era,we must
also not
forget the the most dangerous missions in Vietnam were assigned to Rf101
and
RA5 planes.

Negative. The most dangerous missions were the F-4 chaff layers in
Linebacker.
Hard to miss a chaff stream across the sky. The target is right at the
front
of it. Second, the BUFFs over Bullseye, in the post release turn away
from the
run in. heading.

Not to get into a "mine is bigger than yours", but different aircraft
at different time had different risks.

Yep. And I would not forget the "other" aviators in the theater--over 3,000
UH-1 variants were lost during the war, with over 2,000 crew KIA
(www.vhpa.org/heliloss.pdf ). That would mean about as many UH-1's were
lost as all of the fixed wing losses from all of the services combined, add
the other helo types and I suspect the loss "balance" would shift to the
rotary side.

Brooks

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