The A-1 Skyraider, originally given the designation AD Skyraider, was the result of a Navy decision in 1943 that consolidated dive-bombing and torpedo-plane missions into one kind of aircraft. Yet, ...
Our incoming plane is carrying the remains of an American pilot shot down over Vietnam in 1967 ... Knight’s A-1E Skyraider was hit by anti-aircraft fire during a mission over northern Laos ...
On Oct. 27, 1969, James Wayne Herrick, Jr. was piloting a Douglas A-1 Skyraider on a “secret” reconnaissance mission in Laos ...