Keywords: P-2H Neptune over Soviet ship Oct 1962.jpg A U S Navy Lockheed SP-2H Neptune BuNo 140986 of patrol squadron VP-18 Flying Phantoms flying over a Soviet freighter <br>The freigher is most probably the Okhotsk which left the left the port at Nuevita carrying 12 IL-28 airplanes on 5 December 1962 ; see http //www vpnavy com/vp18_aircraft html http //www ussmullinnix org/SovietShipOkhotsk_Jan63 html http //wilsoncenter net/index cfm topic_id 1409 fuseaction va2 document identifier 5034EE75-96B6-175C-9B59F8B593CD616B sort Collection item US-Soviet 20Relations Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons Volume 2 The History of VP VPB VP H and VP AM Squadrons http //www history navy mil/avh-vol2/chap3-4 pdf 1962 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy Lockheed P-2 Neptune Cuban Missile Crisis Black and white photographs Patrol Squadron 18 United States Navy |