USAF Losses

US Air Force Loss Statistics

THE STATISTICS OF THE AIR WAR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

TABLE 1 - USAF ATTACK AIRCRAFT
	A-1	A-7	A-26	A-37	B-26	AC-47	AC-119	AC-130	T-28	Totals
1961	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	3
1963	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	4	11
1964	9	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	10	21
1965	30	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	32
1966	41	0	3	0	0	4	0	0	1	49
1967	16	0	5	2	0	6	0	0	4	33
1968	36	0	1	6	0	6	0	0	2	51
1969	29	0	3	2	0	1	1	1	0	37
1970	21	0	0	1	0	0	3	1	0	26
1971	10	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	14
1972	8	2	0	7	0	0	1	4	0	22
1973	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Totals	200	6	12	22	10	19	5	6	23	303

TABLE 2 - USAF FIGHTER AND BOMBER AIRCRAFT
	B-52	B-57	F-4	F-5	F-100	F-102	F-104	F-105	F-111	Totals
1961	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1963	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964	0	7	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	11
1965	2	21	13	1	26	4	5	68	0	140
1966	0	13	56	7	26	2	5	126	0	235
1967	3	6	97	1	36	3	4	113	0	263
1968	2	6	63	0	62	3	0	47	3	186
1969	3	4	65	0	54	1	0	22	0	149
1970	0	1	33	0	26	0	0	10	0	70
1971	0	0	30	0	10	0	0	1	0	41
1972	19	0	83	0	0	0	0	9	6	117
1973	2	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	2	10
Totals	31	58	446	9	242	14	14	397	11	1222

TABLE 3 - USAF ELECTRONIC WARFARE AND RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT
	EB-66	EC-47	EC-121	QU-22	RF-4C	RF-101C	SR-71	U-2	Totals
1961	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1963	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
1965	1	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	10
1966	2	1	0	0	7	16	0	1	27
1967	3	2	0	0	23	10	0	0	38
1968	3	1	0	0	24	2	0	0	30
1969	1	4	2	2	10	0	0	0	19
1970	2	2	0	0	9	0	1	0	14
1971	2	0	0	2	3	0	0	0	7
1972	2	2	0	5	6	0	1	0	16
1973	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Totals	17	13	2	9	82	38	2	1	164

TABLE 4 - USAF FORWARD AIR CONTROL AIRCRAFT
	O-1	O-2	OV-10	Totals
1961	0	0	0	0
1962	0	0	0	0
1963	2	0	0	2
1964	3	0	0	3
1965	28	0	0	28
1966	38	0	0	38
1967	39	7	0	46
1968	40	35	2	77
1969	15	24	11	50
1970	7	16	19	42
1971	3	8	10	21
1972	2	14	19	35
1973	0	0	3	3
Totals	177	104	64	345

TABLE 5 - TRANSPORT AND LIAISON AIRCRAFT
	C-7	C-47	C-123	C-130	C-141	U-3	U-6	Totals
1961	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
1962	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	5
1963	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	3
1964	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
1965	0	0	8	6	0	0	0	14
1966	0	2	11	7	0	0	1	21
1967	3	0	7	14	2	0	0	26
1968	7	2	10	16	0	1	0	36
1969	5	0	3	8	0	0	0	16
1970	4	1	4	1	0	0	0	10
1971	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	4
1972	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	6
1973	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	20	7	54	59	2	1	1	144

TABLE 6 - USAF OTHER AIRCRAFT TYPES
	HU-16	KB-50	KC-135	U-10	Totals
1961	0	0	0	0
1962	0	0	0	1	1
1963	0	0	0	0	0
1964	0	1	0	1	2
1965	0	0	0	1	1
1966	2	0	0	2	4
1967	0	0	0	3	3
1968	0	0	2	1	3
1969	0	0	1	3	4
1970	0	0	0	0	0
1971	0	0	0	0	0
1972	0	0	0	0	0
1973	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2	1	3	12	18

TABLE 7 - RAVEN AIRCRAFT LOSSES
	O-1	T-28	U-17	Totals
1968	4	0	0	4
1969	2	0	0	2
1970	2	1	1	4
1971	4	0	1	5
1972	5	0	0	5
Totals	17	1	2	20

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