13 Sep '57: TOS USAF as a C-123B as 56-4362. 1962 to 1972: Deployed to South Vietnam as sprayer. Jan '72: 377th Air Base Wing,Tan Son Nhut. By this time the aircraft had received nearly 600 hits in combat and was nicknamed "Patches" for all the metal patches covering the holes.  The crew earned seven Purple Hearts.  1972: Became the first and only C-123 to fly completely around the world when it returned to the USA by way of Afghanistan and Iran, where it assisted in the fight against a plague of locusts. Jan 73: Redesignated C-123K and decontaminated of Agent Orange. 1980: Flew to the Air Force Museum.

In reality this is former Polish Air Force "1617"

On delivery thru Glasgow - International (EGPF / GLA) with N2808B , for the Vietnam Air Force

On delivery thru Glasgow - International (EGPF / GLA) with N2792B , for the Vietnam Air Force

Actually T-28B BuNo 140048 assigned to NAS Norfolk and sent to MASDC for storage in 1976. In August 1981 it was transferred out to the US Army Aviation Engineering Flight Activity, Edwards AFB, going back to MASDC around 1986 but ferried to Wright Patterson for the USAF Museum in March 1987. It is painted as a VNAF aircraft assigned to Bien Hoa AB in 1962, where USAF pilots trained and flew combat missions with VNAF crews in Operation Farm Gate

Painted as an MiG-21 of North Vietnam's elite 921st Fighter Regiment, this is actually an ex-Hungarian aircraft, 408, which arrived in the US in 1990, It was first operated by the Hungarian Air Force's 47 VE from Pápa in the mid-1960s

This MiG-17 was was presented to the museum by the Egyptian Air Force in 1986 and inevitably has been painted to represent a Vietnamese opponent. Its real s/n was 799

Now wedged into an awkward spot for photos next to the B-47, the NMUSAF MiG-19 has been on show in North Vietnamese AF colours since 1994. It was obtained from the 457th Technical Evaluation Squadron which specialised in testing Soviet combat aircraft at Nellis AFB and had originally been operated by the Indonesian AF as TB-0932

Representing a USAF adversary from the Vietnam War, actually a Bulgarian MiG-17 serialled 86

Welcome the 50th Anniversary of Victory Day at Ho Chi Minh city

Welcome the 50th Anniversary of Victory Day at Ho Chi Minh city

Welcome the 50th Anniversary of Victory Day at Ho Chi Minh city