| Date: 5 October 1965 |
| Aircraft type: F-100D Super Sabre |
| Serial Number: 56-3074 |
| Military Unit: 481 TFS, 27 TFW attached to 6250 CSG |
| Service: USAF |
| Home Base: Tan Son Nhut |
| Name(s): |
| 1Lt John Charles Hauschildt (KIA) |
| The second Super Sabre lost in October was hit by small arms fire during a direct air support mission and crashed a mile offshore and 15 miles northeast of Phu Cat in central South Vietnam. Like many aircraft lost to small arms fire over the South, the aircraft had made several passes allowing the VC gunners to track the aircraft accurately and eventually shoot it down. The intensity of the opposition may have been nothing like that encountered in the war in the North, but the principles of air warfare still applied. Making multiple passes on the same target greatly increases the risk of being hit by ground fire. 1Lt Hauschildt was one of four friends who bought a house together when they were all assigned to Cannon AFB. Within the space of 10 weeks three of the friends were dead: 1Lt Donald Watson was killed in Vietnam on 31 July; and Lt Ralph Ford was killed in New Mexico on 23 August. |
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