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Sources

A number of sections are sourced to Special Orders issued by the support unit at Cannon AFB.

These are, at best, primary sources and not publicly available.

I doubt that the cites are properly supported. Special orders issued by the support organization for a USAF installation are usually authority for personnel to travel to another location and to perform duty at that location. They are not authority for a unit to deploy and participate in an exercise or in combat. The typical (primary) source for this would be an Operational Plan (OPLAN). --Lineagegeek (talk) 23:39, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Material

This article contains much non-encyclopedic information. A list of pilots who deployed on one deployment? Why not the maintenance men? Or the clerks? After all, if nobody kept up the Form 5s, the pilots wouldn't get credit for their missions. --Lineagegeek (talk) 23:39, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Non encyclopedic material removed from article

This information is too detailed and has been removed.

Serial Number	Pilot
55-3604	Lt. Col. Harold E. Comstock
55-3613*	Capt. Charles Summers
56-3504	Capt. Thales "Tad" Derrick
55-2837*	1st Lt. Peter Vanderhoef
56-3074*	Capt. William Kenty
56-3063	Capt. Stephen "Shad" Dvorchak
56-3056	Lt. Col. David Williams
55-3548	1st Lt. Thomas Tilghman
55-2795*	Capt. Norman Turner
54-2177*	1st Lt. Jimmy Kempton
55-3569	Capt. William Carrothers
55-3603	Capt. Joseph Reynes
56-3100	Capt. Robert Barry
55-3528	Capt. Douglas Young
55-3622	Capt. Alvord Anderson III
56-3040	1st Lt. Dale Sprotberry
55-3559	Capt. Paul Phillips
55-3549	1st Lt. Donald Watson

* Indicates aircraft that were shot down on combat missions. A replacement aircraft, serial number 56-3334 was also shot down.^[a] Lineagegeek (talk) 22:09, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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