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General Dynamics F-111 Family

 Subject
Subject Source: Nasm
Scope Note: Aircraft

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

John Wegg Commercial Airlines Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-09-12
Overview John Wegg is best known as the founder and editor-in-chief of Airliners and Airways magazines, as well as contributor to other publications and author of 12 books on aviation history, airlines, and aircraft manufacturers. The John Wegg Commercial Airlines Collection consists of about 2.7 cubic feet of material such as printed ephemera, photographs, documents, and other materials pertaining to the Wegg's aviation journalism...
Dates: 1929-2004; Majority of material found within circa 1950s-1990s

Wilson, Bill - 2017-10-23, 2017

 Item
Summary [From transcript] Bill Wilson was a General Dynamics F-111 pilot during the Vietnam War. He discusses his time in the United States Air Force, his deployment to Thailand, and his combat missions against MiGs while dodging surface-to-air missiles. He recalls a mission over Hanoi in which he and his partner were shot down and eventually captured by enemy troops. Being near the end of hostilities, he did not have to endure the harsh treatment that pilots who were captured earlier received. Bill...
Dates: 2017

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