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2 unusual facts about Roger Locher


Charles B. DeBellevue

Oyster flight had three of its Phantoms equipped with Combat Tree IFF interrogators, and two days previously its flight lead, Major Robert Lodge, and his WSO 1st Lt Roger Locher had scored their third MiG kill to lead all USAF crews then flying in Southeast Asia.

Dale E. Stovall

A member of the 40th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron based in Thailand, on June 2, 1972, he recovered Maj. Roger Locher from deep inside North Vietnam, the furthest any airman was ever rescued from inside enemy lines.



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