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Allen Lamb (pilot) and Jack Donovan (EWO) achieved the first Wild Weasel SAM kill on Dec. 22, 1965, while covering a strike force northwest of Hanoi, North Vietnam. Capt. Donovan began picking up radar signals and called out the coordinates.
Allen Lamb (pilot) and Jack Donovan (EWO) achieved the first Wild Weasel SAM kill on Dec. 22, 1965, while covering a strike force northwest of Hanoi, North Vietnam. Capt. Donovan began picking up radar signals and called out the coordinates.
Wild Weasel is a code name given by the United States Air Force (USAF) to an aircraft of any type equipped with anti-radiation missiles and tasked with the suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD): destroying the radar and surface-to-air missile (SAM) installations of enemy air defense systems.
The team had successfully proven a new concept of air warfare designed specifically to target the radars that were vital for modern guided missiles to track their targets. The concept, which was code-named Wild Weasel, was coming of age. Captains Allen Lamb and Jack Donovan before their historic mission in 1965.
A son of a member of the Society of Wild Weasels captured the moment with an F-16 missing man four ship flown by the McEntire ANGB F-16 Wild Weasel unit (157th FS). Jack Donovan was 82 when he died peacefully at his home on Saturday, April 11, 2015.
As told by Richard P. Hallion in his book Rolling Thunder 1965-68, on Dec. 22, 1965, pilot Captain Al Lamb and EWO Capt Jack Donovan of the 6234th TFW (Wild Weasel Detachment) led the first successful Wild Weasel hunter-killer mission to destroy a SA-2 site.
Allen Lamb has lived an incredible life and a wild one at that. He’s a veteran of the United States Air Force and one of the original Wild Weasels. He, along with Electronic Warfare Officer Jack Donovan, made the first kill of a Surface to Air Missile (SAM) site during the Vietnam War.
