File:Camouflaged KA-3B on USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) c1965.jpeg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(2,134 × 1,567 pixels, file size: 1.52 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description A U.S. Navy Douglas KA-3B Skywarrior of Heavy Attack Squadron 4 (VAH-4) Det.C Fourrunners detaches at the end of roll-out during landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) during that carrier's deployment to Vietnam from 19 October 1965 to 13 June 1966. The U.S. Navy experimented with aircraft camouflage and painted half of the aircraft of Attack Carrier Air Wing 11 (CVW-11) with dark green colours to blend in with the Vietnamese jungle. The results proved inconclusive for the U.S. Navy, whereas the U.S. Air Force concluded that the camouflage was effective. U.S. Navy planes would not be camouflaged until the 1980s.
Date
Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.3577; Official U.S. Navy photo USN 1116632 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Author PHCS R.E. Rutledge, U.S. Navy

Licensing[edit]

Public domain
This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current00:28, 4 January 2011Thumbnail for version as of 00:28, 4 January 20112,134 × 1,567 (1.52 MB)Cobatfor (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description=A U.S. Navy Douglas KA-3B ''Skywarrior'' of Heavy Attack Squadron VAH-4 Det.C ''Fourrunners'' detaches at the end of roll-out during landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS ''Kitty Hawk'' (CVA-63) during t

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Camouflaged_KA-3B_on_USS_Kitty_Hawk_(CVA-63)_c1965.jpeg&oldid=846655426"