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| Keywords: F-4Js VF-96 dropping bombs on Vietnam 1971-72.jpg Three U S Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II assigned to fighter squadron VF-96 Fighting Falcons Carrier Air Wing 9 CVW-9 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Constellation CVA-64 dropping bombs over Vietnam in 1971/72 The aircraft in the foreground BuNo 155800 NG-100 callsign Showtime 100 was used by Lt Randy Cunningham and Lt JG Willie Dricoll for their 3rd 4th and 5th MiG-kills on 10 May 1972 However it was hit by a North Vietnamese SA-2 surface-to-air-missile and the crew had to eject over the Gulf of Tonkin scan from Robert L Lawson ed The History of US Naval Air Power The Military Press New York USA 1985 ISBN 0-517-414813 p 196 US Navy cited as source 1971 Cdr David P Erickson USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy F-4J Phantom II Aerial photographs of F-4 Phantom II in flight Fighter Squadron 96 United States Navy 1971 in aviation | ||||
