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FLYING A ‘THUD’

Source:   An F-105 in flight with a full bomb load of 750lb bombs. This aircraft was later shot down over Laos on 24 December 1968  

Three F-105s take off to go on a bombing mission over North Vietnam in 1966. In the early part of the war the F-105 was

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