Aircraft: A-4C Skyhawk
Custodian: VA-34
BuNo: 149587
modex: AK-3xx |
Location: USS Intrepid, Tonkin Gulf
Date: June 1967 |
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| Description:
CAPT John Fair, Intrepid CO, chalks a greeting to Ho Chi Minh on a
750 pound USAF M-117 before Airwing-10 Skyhawk BuNo 149587 launches
on the 1st mission of the 1967 deployment. M-117 was used
because of the bomb shortage that officially did not exist. |
Photo credit: U.S. Navy from 1967 Intrepid
cruise book
contact: "Boom" Powell |
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