Four Douglas AD-6 Skyraider of VA-15 in flight over USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42), in 1959

Four U.S. Navy Douglas AD-6 Skyraider (BuNo 134601, 135233, 139692, 139760) of Attack Squadron 15 (VA-15) "Valions" in flight, in 1959. VA-15 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 1 (CVG-1) aboard the aircaft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42), visible below, for a deployement to the Mediterranean Sea from 13 February to 28 August 1959. * 139692 was shot down by an S-75 (SA-2) missile near Giao Phuong, North Vietnam, on 13 April 1966 while in service with VA-52. The pilot was killed; * 139760 was shot down on 5 August 1964 in just offshore of Thanh Hoa, North Vietnam, in the Gulf of Tonkin while in sevrice with VA-145. The pilot, Lieutenant (jg) Richard C. Sather, was the first U.S. Navy pilot killed during the Vietnam War.

Date

1959

Photographer / author

U.S. Navy

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Wikimedia Commons

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image

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1,291 × 793 pixels

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