|
|
FREE worldwide shipping for orders over £120 |
|
|
 |
|||
|
|
FREE worldwide shipping for orders over £120 |
|
|
|
|
|||
| Click Here For Full Artist Print Indexes | Aviation History Archive |
Leo K Thorsness | Colonel Leo K Thorsness Leo Thorsness flew 92.5 missions in the two seater F-105F Wild Weasels. The job of these specially equipped models was to pinpoint the North Vietnamese SAM (surface to air) missile sites, by getting the sites to activate their radar and fire their missiles at them, so that F-105s could see, attack and destroy the SAM ground radar sites. On April 19th 1967 for one such mission with the 357th TFS, Leo Thorsness was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. On April 30th his luck ran out- he was shot down just 7 missions short of his combat tour. Taken prisoner, he spent six years as a POW in North Vietnam. |
Items Signed by Colonel Leo K Thorsness |
  | Rolling Thunder by Robert Taylor. Price : £200.00 | Flying down Thud Ridge at just below the speed of sound, Jack Broughton leads an F-105 Thunderbolt raid on the power plant at Viet Tri, North Vietnam, March12, 1967. The target was destroyed....... | |
| | Rolling Thunder by Robert Taylor (AP) Price : £325.00 | Flying down Thud Ridge at just below the speed of sound, Jack Broughton leads an F-105 Thunderbolt raid on the power plant at Viet Tri, North Vietnam, March12, 1967. The target was destroyed....... |
Packs with at least one item featuring the signature of Colonel Leo K Thorsness |
  | US Aircraft Vietnam War Aviation Pack. Pack Price : £360.00 Saving : £220 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Knights Charge by Simon Atack. (B) Rolling Thunder by Robert Taylor. Cavalry Sabre by David Pentland. |
| Aircraft for : Colonel Leo K Thorsness | |||
| A list of all aircraft associated with Colonel Leo K Thorsness. A profile page including a list of all art prints for the aircraft is available by clicking the aircraft name. | |||
| Squadron | Info | ||
| Thunderchief F-105. Variants included F105F Wild Weasel | ||
See our aviation history timeline for all today's historical aviation events - air victories, aircraft losses and pilot details.
| RECENT UPDATES TO OUR AVIATION HISTORY DATABASES |
| Updates made to Aircrew database for : Radford : Squadrons updated (added No.51 Sqn RAF), Airframes updated (added Whitley P4981), Squadron service dates updated |
| Updates made to Aircrew database for : Clarke : |
| 412th Fighter Squadron added to the squadrons database. |
| Updates made to Airframes database for : Flying Fortress 42-30047 : Squadrons updated (added 100th Bomb Group) |
| Flying Fortress Mk.F-85-BO 42-30043 of 547th Bomb Squadron added to the airframes database. |
| JGr Losigkeit added to the squadrons database. |
| Updates made to Airframes database for : Whitley N1490 : Airframe notes updated (added 11-02-1941 : Whitley crash-landed at Hill House Farm in Ayrshire. ) |
| New victory claim added : Fw190 claimed on 24th June 1943 by Stanislaw Brzeski of No.302 Sqn RAF |
| New victory claim added : (V-1 flying bomb.) claimed on 9th July 1944 by William Hoy of No.25 Sqn RAF |
| Updates made to Aircrew database for : Robinson : Squadrons updated (added No.99 Sqn RAF), Squadron service dates updated |
| SEARCH OUR AVIATION HISTORY DATABASES |
|
Contact Details |
|
Sign Up To Our Newsletter!
This website is owned by Cranston Fine Arts. Torwood House, Torwoodhill Road, Rhu, Helensburgh, Scotland, G848LE Contact: Tel: (+44) (0) 1436 820269. Fax:
(+44) (0) 1436 820473. Email: cranstonorders @ outlook.com |
|
|
