Sent into Vietnam, the F-100 Super Sabre became a close air support workhorse. But with 180 lost to enemy fire and plagued by compressor stalls, it proved as dangerous for its pilots as for the enemy.

Former Milford resident Robert E. Layman Jr. perished in South Vietnam May 22, 1969, when the U.S. Army medical helicopter he piloted came under enemy fire and crashed. Layman, 20, will join three ...