The Republic of the Marshall Islands used commemorative coinage extensively throughout the 1990s as a revenue-generating program rather than for domestic circulation, contracting production to foreign mints. The F-105 Thunderchief earned its place in this series through its role in the early years of the Vietnam War, where it flew the majority of strike missions over North Vietnam between 1965 and 1968 — suffering the highest aircraft losses of any U.S. type in that conflict.
More than half of all F-105s ever built were lost in combat or operational accidents over Southeast Asia.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands used commemorative coinage extensively throughout the 1990s as a revenue-generating program rather than for domestic circulation, contracting production to foreign mints. The F-105 Thunderchief earned its place in this series through its role in the early years of the Vietnam War, where it flew the majority of strike missions over North Vietnam between 1965 and 1968 — suffering the highest aircraft losses of any U.S. type in that conflict.
More than half of all F-105s ever built were lost in combat or operational accidents over Southeast Asia.