Re: Aircraft Used in Korea-AD's

[Joe Brennan <jbren1@optonline.net>]

Here's a link from Naval History Office of Navy/Marine Korea OOB, the source
I was using to suggest additional AD variants used.

USAF use dated from 1964. At around the same time the type was selected for,
and became a permanent mainstay of, the VNAF. Accounts I've read suggest the
two moves were related: It was decided to equip the VNAF with them, the USAF
was going to train the VNAF so got a small number themselves, and decided it
was a suitable plane for their own SEA operations. It's also sometimes
suggested the AF considered the AD as far back as pre-Korea, but new
non-jets were not then acceptable in the new USAF.
http://www.history.navy.mil/download/app25.pdf

Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Evanhoe" <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: Aircraft Used in Korea


> Cookie & Mike,
>
> > >>AD is the original designation of the Skyraider (okay, for the very
> > technical it was XBT2D-1). The A-1 was a change made after 1962 when
> > McNamara standardized the designation system. <<
>
> Granted aircraft aren't my thing but I never have seen anything indicating
> the USAF used ADs in the Korean War for ground support.  Would appreciate
> knowing what units exactly did have AD's so I can update info on my web
site.
>
> Ed
>
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