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| Keywords: US aircraft intercept Tu-95 over the Med in c1977.jpeg A U S Marine Corps AV-8A Harrier from Marine Attack Squadron 231 VMA-231 pilot Major Randy Balara Ace of Spades and two U S Navy McDonnell F-4N Phantom II fighters from Fighter Squadron 51 VF-51 Screaming Eagles and VF-111 Sundowners intercept a Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 NATO reporting Code Bear The squadrons were assigned to Carrier Air Wing 19 CVW-19 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D Roosevelt CV-42 barely visible in the haze below for her final cruise to the Mediterranean Sea from 4 October 1976 to 21 April 1977 Franklin D Roosevelt was decommissioned on 30 September 1977 http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/AdvQuery php U S Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/Display php irn 13635 QueryPage 2Femuwebdoncoms 2Fpages 2Fdoncoms 2FAdvQuery php 1996 253 7119 003 ca 1977 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy AV-8A/C Harrier US Marine Corps F-4N Phantom II Aerial photographs of F-4 Phantom II in flight Aerial photographs of Tupolev Tu-95 in flight Marine Attack Squadron 231 Fighter Squadron 51 United States Navy Fighter Squadron 111 United States Navy USS Franklin D Roosevelt CV-42 Mixed aircraft formations Black and white photographs of aircraft | ||||
