Richard Sather5 August 1964
Sather was killed when his A-1 Skyraider was shot down by North Vietnamese antiaircraft fire during the retaliatory carrier strikes of Operation Pierce Arrow.
United States of America · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Sather was killed when his A-1 Skyraider was shot down by North Vietnamese antiaircraft fire during the retaliatory carrier strikes of Operation Pierce Arrow.
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