Remembering Shifty
Colonel Edward B. Burdett, commander of the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing, was shot down on November 18, 1967 during a Commando Club radar-assisted raid on Phuc Yen. The first attacks against Phuc Yen, a MiG-21 Fishbed base north of Hanoi, were authorized in late October, 1967. The airfield is shown here as USAF bombs hit it during a 1967 attack. Notice the circular cloud of smoke and dust at the upper left of the picture, probably the detonation of cluster bombs such as CBU-24s dropped by flak-suppression aircraft on an active anti-aircraft artillery site. Meanwhile, conventional high-explosive bombs, perhaps the commonly used M117 750-lb bombs, explode on or near the runway. (National Museum of the USAF, via Wikipedia)
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