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Vietnam War Picture: Colonel Robin Olds Being Carried After His 100th Combat Mission


(Picture courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.)

Wolfpack pilots of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing sweep Colonel Robin Olds away from his F-4 Phantom II aircraft following his return from his 100th combat mission over North Vietnam. Olds led the Wolfpack through the past year as it amassed 24 MiG victories, the greatest aerial combat record of an F-4 Wing in the Vietnam war. Olds will assume the position of Commandant of Cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy on December 1, 1967. (September 23, 1967)

 

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