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| Keywords: F-4Js on USS Constellation (CVA-64) 1972.jpg Two U S Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II assigned to Carrier Air Wing 9 CVW-9 on the waist catapults of the aircraft carrier USS Constellation CVA-64 in 1971/72 The aircraft in the foreground BuNo 155799 NG-200 was assigned to fighter squadron VF-92 Silver Kings The one in the back BuNo 155800 NG-100 callsign Showtime 100 was from fighter squadron VF-96 Fighting Falcons and was used by Lt Randy Cunningham and Lt JG Willie Dricoll for their 3rd 4th and 5th MiG-kills on 10 May 1972 However it was hit by a North Vietnamese SA-2 surface-to-air-missile and the crew had to eject over the Gulf of Tonkin scan from Dana Bell Air War over Vietnam Volume III Arms Armour Press London UK 1985 ISBN 0-85368-607-6 p 37 US Navy cited as source 1971-1972 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy F-4J Phantom II Fighter Squadron 92 United States Navy Fighter Squadron 96 United States Navy Aviation in the 1970s USS Constellation CV-64 flight deck | ||||
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