Downtown- F-111 during Linebacker II

While refreshing my interest in Downtown I have gone back over the info I had on the F-111 Operations and decided to fill in some holes.  The Day 1 strikes were in support of the B-52 missions which attacked:

· Kinh No Complex        - 3 Raids (36 Ac in total)
· Yen Vien Complex       - 1 Raid (27 Ac)
· Hoa Lac Airfield           - 1 Raid (6 Ac)
· Kep Airfield                  - 1 Raid (9Ac)
· Phuc Yen Airfield         - 1 Raid (6 Ac)
· Gia Lam Railroad yard - 2 Raids (24 Ac)
· Hanoi Radio                  - 1 Raid (21 Ac)

As an intro style game, I could use a variant of D14 to just fly the 8 F-111 attacks ahead of the B-52 missions.  Could be good for a multiplayer game anyway....I ramble on as usual.  D14 covers the first wave of 48 (which I can't reconcile via the ToT report) of B-52 preceded by the F-111 strikes, so It is relatively easy to brealk out the early F-111 missions on 18 December Day 1.  There were 15 (16) F-111 sorties flown against 9 (10) targets (figures in brackets are correct if I account for the loss of SNUG 40).  The first attacks began at 1910 hrs local with a strike against the DRV Airfields.  The timings are taken from the Linebacker II report and the conversion to local is mine using the +7 hrs GMT timezone difference.

1210Z (1910 Local)
· Hoa Lac Airfield
· Yen Bai Airfield
· Kep Airfield
· Phuc Yen Airfield

1225Z (1925 Local)
· Yen Bai Airfield
· Phuc Yen Airfield

1244Z (1925 Local)
· Yen Bai Airfield

1300Z (2000 Local) - 
· Hanoi Radio - This is pure supposition on my part as the loss of SNUG 40 is recorded at 1300Z while being flown against Hanoi Radio but that mission doesn't appear on the sortie list in the Checo Linebacker II documents. The Checo F-111 in SEA report indicates that the ToT was 2053 local and that last radio contact was at 2054 but that could just be my time zone conversion.

1328Z (2028Z local)
· Lang Truoc Radio Transmitter

1337Z (2037 Local)
· Hanoi/Bac Mai Airfield

1430Z (2130 Local)
· Hanoi Port Facility

1607Z (2307 Local)
· Hanoi/Bac Mai Airfield

1820Z (0120 Local 19th December)
· Hanoi Port Facility
1848Z (0148 Local 19th December)
· Hanoi Port Facility

2105Z (0405Z local 19th December)
· Bac Giang TPP

In terms of airframes there is plenty of documentation out there.  What I want to do going forward is find out who was involved on each of the respective days and flew which missions.  From what I have now read the tailcodes should all have been HG once deployed. So the NA codes on the 429th aircraft painted previously might be transitional.


429th TFS
67-0059
67-0060
67-0061
67-0063
67-0064
67-0065
67-0066
67-0068
67-0069
67-0070
67-0071
67-0072
67-0074
67-0075
67-0076
67-0078
67-0079
67-0080
67-0083
67-0084
67-0086
67-0087
67-0088

430th TFS    
67-0073
67-0077
67-0085
67-0091
67-0092
67-0093
67-0094
67-0095
67-0096
67-0097
67-0098
67-0099
67-0100
67-0101
67-0102
67-0103
67-0104
67-0105
67-0106
67-0107
67-0110
67-0112
67-0113
67-0114  

67-0090 Replacement aircraft
67-0062
67-0067
67-0058
67-0089
67-0109