File:A-5A VAH-7 CVAN-65 NAN3-63.jpg

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Description A North American A-5A Vigilante bomber (BuNo 149283) of Heavy Attack Squadron VAH-7 "Peacemakers of the Fleet", Carrier Air Group 6 (CVG-6), assigned to the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in 1962. This aircraft was later converted to an RA-5C and shot down by flak on 18 May 1968 over Vietnam while being assigned to Heavy Reconnaissance Squadron RVAH-11 "Checkertails", Attack Carrier Air Wing 11 (CVW-11), aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63). The pilot ejected and became a prisoner of war, the radar attack navigator was killed (for details of this loss see [1]).
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Source U.S. Navy Naval Aviation News March 1963 [2]; U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.6457
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current20:50, 4 February 2013Thumbnail for version as of 20:50, 4 February 20131,888 × 1,412 (965 KB)Cobatfor (talk | contribs)NMNA photo
20:21, 6 March 2008Thumbnail for version as of 20:21, 6 March 2008808 × 263 (53 KB)Cobatfor (talk | contribs){Information |Description=A North American A-5A ''Vigilante'' bomber (BuNo 149283) of heavy attack squadron VAH-7 ''Peacemakers of the Fleet'', ''Carrier Air Group 6 (CVG-6)'', assigned to the U.S. aircraft carrier ''USS Enterprise (CVAN-65)'' from 1962 t

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