MAKE A MEME View Large Image Skyraiders VF(AW)-4 in flight 1957.jpg Two U S Navy Douglas AD-5N Skyraider BuNo 133905 133924 from All-Weather Fighter Squadron VF AW -4 Det 38 Nightcappers in flight on the VF AW -4 Det 38 was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Tarawa ...
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Keywords: AD-5N Skyraiders VF(AW)-4 in flight 1957.jpg Two U S Navy Douglas AD-5N Skyraider BuNo 133905 133924 from All-Weather Fighter Squadron VF AW -4 Det 38 Nightcappers in flight on the VF AW -4 Det 38 was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Tarawa CVS-40 for a deployment to the Atlantic Ocean in the second half of 1957 <br> 133905 was later transferred to the U S Air Force USAF A-1G s/n 52-133905 and served with the 602nd Air Commando Squadron 56th Air Commando Wing in Vietnam It was shot down during an SAR mission by a North Vietnamese Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 by gunfire over Hoa Binh province North Vietnam on 19 April 1967 20 42 00N 105 32 00E The pilot Maj John S Hamilton was killed U S Navy photo http //navysite de/cruisebooks/cv40-57/138 htm from the http //navysite de/cruisebooks/cv40-57/index_020 htm USS Tarawa CVS-40 1957 cruise book available at http //navysite de/cruisebooks/index html Navysite de 1957 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy AD-5 A-1E Skyraider All-Weather Fighter Squadron 4 United States Navy
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