When USA Fought Thai Fighters

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Outnumbered and against all odds, five Thai Fighter Pilots went into battle against sixteen superior American planes. Despite their bravery and tenacity, it was to be a one-sided combat, with the Thai’s being taken down one by one. Yet, in the desperate fight they managed to shoot down one of the Americans. The plane of Henry Minco, the fallen pilot, was found 75 years later by a team that included RTAF Air Chief Marshall Sakpinit Promthep, USAF Major Daniel Jackson, and Mr. Hak Hakanson. In January 2024 the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is due to excavate the site in the hope of finding and repatriating Minco’s remains. This incredible story was brought to us by Major Jackson who reached out to the channel. Major Jackson is a Combat Aviation Advisor with the US Air Force Special Operations Command and author of Fallen Tigers: The Fate of America’s Missing Airmen in China During World War II.

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00:00 Searchers of Doi American
02:18 P-51C Mustangs and P-38J Lightnings vs Nakajima Ki-27b “Sparrows”. Planes overview. 01:26 Dogfights start.
05:02 One Thai fighter down, Four remain.
08:01 Two down, Three remain.
10:18 Three down, Two remain.
13:48 The last pilot on the battlefield. Die hard.
18:28 The friends are reunited.
20:16 The resting place of Minco has been located

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40 thoughts on “When USA Fought Thai Fighters”

  5. I must say, I know a great deal about World War 2, but very little about Thailand’s participation in the war. I was impressed by the skill, courage, and sheer guile of the Thai pilots. I’d be interested to learn more about their current air force and its capabilities.

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  40. The Thai government under Plaek Phibunsongkhram considered it profitable to co-operate with the Japanese war efforts, since Japan promised to help Thailand regain some of the Indochinese territories (in today's Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam) which had been lost to France.

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