In their first air combat , a small force of seemingly mismatched MiG-17s inflicted Bodily_harm significant losses Earnings_and_losses on much larger and more advanced Cause_to_make_progress American F-105 Thunderchief at a cost Cost of 3 of their own , with an F-100 Super Sabre claiming Statement the first probable American kill Killing of the conflict Hostile_encounter .

Combat Skyspot 's command Control guidance of B-52s and tactical fighters and bombers— '' chiefly flown by F-100 's '' —at night and poor weather was used Using for aerial bombing Attack of strategic , close Openness air Expressing_publicly support Supporting , interdiction , and other targets .

The 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash occurred Coming_to_be on June 30 , 1959 , in the Ishikawa area ( now Uruma ) of then United States ( U.S. ) -occupied Okinawa .