English: Cockpit of a Douglas A-1H Skyraider at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (USA), on 21 November 2022. The aircraft on display represents Captain Ronald Smith’s A-1H "The Proud American" (Serial Number 52-139738) as it appeared during his SAR mission in June 1972 as part of the 1st Special Operations Squadron, Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. Captain Smith was awarded the Air Force Cross for the rescue of a downed F-4 Phantom II crewman near a North Vietnamese airfield. "The Proud American" had a long and storied record in Southeast Asia. Although many pilots flew the plane, it is renowned for three separate episodes: Lt Col William Jones’ Medal of Honor mission in 1968, Capt Ronald Smith’s Air Force Cross mission in June 1972, and for being the last US Air Force A-1 lost in combat in Southeast Asia on 28 September 1972. The aircraft on display was delivered to the U.S. Navy (Bureau Number 134600) in 1956 and was transferred to the Vietnam Air Force in April 1965. It arrived aboard USNS Core (T-AKV-41) in Saigon on 17 June 1965 and was initially assigned to the 514th FS at Bien Hoa Air Base. It was then transferred to the 520th FS at Binh Thuy Air Base. This aircraft was one of about 40 Skyraiders captured by North Vietnam in 1975. Its whereabouts are unknown until it was bought (?) by the U.S. Army Center Military History in 1997. It was transported from Vietnam to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona (USA), and was relocated to the USAF Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in 1999. There, it was resored from 2013 to 2022 and is today on display as A-1H 52-139738 of the 1st Special Operations Squadron.