File:AD-5N Skyraiders VF(AW)-4 in flight 1957.jpg

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Two U.S. Navy Douglas AD-5N Skyraider (BuNo 133905, 133924) from All-Weather Fighter Squadron VF(AW)-4 Det.38 Nightcappers in flight on the . VF(AW)-4 Det.38 was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Tarawa (CVS-40) for a deployment to the Atlantic Ocean in the second half of 1957.

133905 was later transferred to the U.S. Air Force (USAF A-1G s/n 52-133905) and served with the 602nd Air Commando Squadron, 56th Air Commando Wing in Vietnam. It was shot down during an SAR mission by a North Vietnamese Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 by gunfire over Hoa Binh province, North Vietnam, on 19 April 1967 (20 42 00N, 105 32 00E). The pilot, Maj. John S. Hamilton, was killed.
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Source U.S. Navy photo [1] from the USS Tarawa (CVS-40) 1957 cruise book available at Navysite.de
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