Hey guys may be you can share what you know about the PAF contingent that went to the Congo crisis. I believe that the squadron was known as the "Limbas" Squardon?
Thank you and God bless . . .

I think I posted some links in the PDF before, here are some:

http://www.paf.mil.ph/history/history09.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Han...9/bluedia3.html
http://www.iiaf.net/aircraft/jetfighters/F86/f86.html

Thanks Saver. God bless . . .

Anyway, bitin. On those sites, no mention of what our Limbas Squadron actually did.

Sir Pendejo, any narrative sorties of our F-86 there just like the stories of our gallant men of the PEFTOK?

Limbas flew persuasion flights over the Congo and performed air defense alert duties along with their counterparts from the UN. The contingent was commanded by then Lt Colonel Jose L. Rancudo.

When the F-86F was phased out, the 9th TFS was equipped with the AT-34, a counter insurgency aircraft coverted from the T-34 trainer.

Thanks Sir Pendejo.

Bat 21, here's some of it:

11 February 1963

PAF sends the "Limbas" Squadron, led by Lt. Col. Jose Rancudo, to join the UN Peacekeeping Force to the troubled Congo. Together with Swedish and Iranian fighter units and an Ethiopian air transport contingent, the Limbas Squadron would help neutralize rebel activity and end the civil war in the African nation.

http://www.paf.mil.ph/history/milestones.html

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Han...9/bluedia3.html
Instead the PAF activated and sent the 9th Tactical Fighter Limbas Squadron to Congo, Africa in response to the United Nations call for concerted peacekeeping efforts. Several members of the team readily transferred to the 9th TFS to see action in Africa.

http://www.inq7.net/opi/2003/jul/06/opi_rjfarolan-1.htm

In 1963, in response to a request from the United Nations for a peacekeeping contingent, President Diosdado Macapagal ordered the dispatch of an air squadron to the Congo. The mission was headed by my cousin, Colonel Horacio Farolan while the unit itself was led by Lieutenant Colonel Jose Rancudo.

http://www.iiaf.net/aircraft/jetfighters/F86/f86.html

By this time there were two other UN fighter units at Kamina, the Swedish 22nd Squadron with 12 ship SAAB J29s and S29s, and the Philippine 9th Squadron with 6 ship Canadian built F-86Es. All three units were now formed into a UN Fighter Wing, with Swedish Colonel Sven Lampell as its first commander.
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Those were the days of our PAF :thumb:

Greetings to all! May reference photos po ba na available for these Limbas F-86s? Thanks!

Here are some but not quite clear:

http://www.paf.mil.ph/HISTORY/milestones.html#top



Nice formation though.







nice links:

http://images.google.com.ph/imgres?imgurl=...hl%3Den%26lr%3D