The F-4s participated in the Vietnam War and the Operation Desert Storm. Production was stopped in 1985, after 5,195 Phantom IIs had been manufactured. As many as 4,138 aircraft were operational with US defence
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(JG) Willie "Irish" Driscoll from the USS Constellation's Fighter Squadron VF-96 "the Fighting Falcons" departed in their F-4J Phantom II "Showtime". Their job was to bomb a rail yard and then provide cover for A-7's on the same mission. During the mission Mig-17s arrived and so ...
The ROKAF 10 Fighter Wing 153rd FS F-4E Phantom II "Vietnam War three-colour camouflage" came back Suwon AFB after training for the retirement ceremony.. 78-739. McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II. JetPhotos.com is the biggest database of aviati
or actually got in the cockpit to do what they joined the Air Force to do – fly. (For the record, I never saw or loaded any golf gear on the jet. No doubt some golf was played while they were on extended trips – most courses had quality clubs to rent, and as long as you had...
Further reading Rene Francillion:US Navy Carrier Air Groups: Pacific 1941-1945. (Osprey Airwar 16). Osprey, London 1978,ISBN 0-85045-291-0. Bert Kinzey; Ray Leader:Colors and Markings of U.S. Navy and USMC CAG Aircraft. Part 1: Fighters! F-8 Crusader, F-4 Phantom, F-14 Tomcat"(...
This Day In Aviation History 21 May 1956
political messing up: the Thunderchief (lead sled), that was shot out of the skies of Vietnam, the Mustang with its Allison engine AND the Phantom without the cannon (and which flight caracteristics were the reason for the development of arguably some of the best fighters, Eagle and Falcon...
Gul o Tonkin involved Far East Air Force F-105 units rom August 1964 in retaliatory strikes. F-105s were to y combat missions over Vietnam and Laos until the fnal stages o the con ict in 1974. They were the most potent tactical weapons available in the area in 1964, when elements...
Sometime later, the name 'Haley Army Airfield' was added below the emblem in honor of Captain Patrick Haley, an Army aviator killed in action in Vietnam in 1967.There was an open-frame control tower sited at the northeast corner of the hangar....