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From April 1966 to February 1969, Intrepid made three Vietnam deployments, with Carrier Air Wing 10 embarked. [12] Mid-1966 found Intrepid with the Pacific Fleet off Vietnam. Nine A-4 Skyhawks and six A-1 Skyraiders , loaded with bombs and rockets, were catapulted in seven minutes, with only a 28-second interval between launches.
The Intrepid Four: Newsclip from Amex - the American expatriate in Canada. The Intrepid Four were a group of United States Navy sailors who grew to oppose what they called "the American aggression in Vietnam" and publicly deserted from the USS Intrepid in October 1967 as it docked in Japan during the Vietnam War. [1]
VA-176 A-1H in 1966 with "MiG-Killer" LTJG W. T. Patton CVW-10 was shifted in 1966 to the USS Intrepid , which was used as an attack carrier for three deployments to Vietnam. During the 1966 deployment two members of the squadron became known by successfully engaging a Vietnam People's Air Force MiG-17 , an unusual instance of propeller-driven ...
An A-1J Skyraider of VA-165 in 1966. On 4 April 1966, VA-165 deployed to Vietnam as a component of CVW-10 embarked on USS Intrepid. This was the first all attack air wing and the first to deploy. Two squadrons flew the A-1 Skyraider and the other two squadrons flew the A-4 Skyhawk. [2]
VS-35, USS Hornet: North Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin: Crewman on an S-2D which disappeared while on a night patrol [15] Presumptive finding of death [3] January 22: Templin, Erwin B: Lieutenant (LTJG) US Navy: VS-35, USS Hornet: North Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin: Copilot on an S-2D which disappeared while on a night patrol [16] Presumptive finding of ...
4 April–21 November 1966: VA-15 deployed to Vietnam as a component of CVW-10 embarked on USS Intrepid. CVW-10 was an all-attack air wing composed of four attack squadrons, two squadrons flying A-4 Skyhawks and two squadrons with A-1 Skyraiders.
Carrier Air Group 10 was established on 1 May 1950, but did not see a deployment until 1952 on board the USS Lake Champlain. [1] Although CVG-10 didn't take part in the Korean War, it still did see more deployments in years to come, taking part in nine more deployments before the decade's end, including on board the U.S. Navy's first super carrier, the USS Forrestal during the Lebanon crisis ...
The United States, South Vietnam and their other allies in the Vietnam War agreed to a proposal from the VC and North Vietnam for three ceasefires to coincide with holidays. All fighting would halt from 07:00 24 December, until 07:00 on 26 December, as well as from the morning of New Year's Eve until the morning of 2 January 1967.