Aircraft: A-4L Skyhawk
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BuNo: 149646
modex: 646
Location: USS Peleliu
Date: 07 December 1981
Description: crewmen aboard the amphibious assault ship LHA 5 recover the simulated AV-8 Harrier pilot (actually ex NAEC Lakehurst A-4L Skyhawk BuNo 149646) to demonstrate Navy readiness on the 40th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Photo credit: official U.S. Navy photo by JO2 A.J Skripsky
contact:
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/ DN-SN-83-10068

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