| Date: 4 April 1971 |
| Aircraft type: F-100D Super Sabre |
| Serial Number: 56-3120 |
| Military Unit: 352 TFS, 35 TFW |
| Service: USAF |
| Home Base: Phan Rang |
| Name(s): |
| 1Lt Joseph Stanley Smith (KIA) |
| Another aircraft was lost in Cambodia when a flight of two Super Sabres attacked a storage area about 30 miles north of Kampong Cham. 1Lt Smith, the flight leader, was strafing the target on his fifth pass when ground fire was seen to hit the aircraft’s port wing. The aircraft (call sign Blade) crashed half a mile from the target before the pilot could eject. Between 1996 and 2016 joint US/Cambodian teams recovered wreckage and human remains from the crash site. The remains were identified as being those of 1Lt Smith in 2017. |
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