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Lovely shots Dino!!!!!!!!
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A few more from the yard (RF-4's).

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some oldies,
MCAS El-Toro Ca,

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and one from Reno IAP Nv,

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Nice RF-4B!
I can add some Edwards F-4Es that I scanned yesterday for a guy that served with the Thunderbirds in the 1970s. All FY66 F-4Es at the AFFTC were former T'birds. That's why all of them are preserved now somewhere in the US.
The photos (slides) were taken in January 1987.
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Phantoms relatively close to home... Wittmund, some take off shots:

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cheers Jeroen
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What goes up must come down... Wittmund approach:

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cheers Jeroen
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Couple of funky old F-4Ds in B&W

Two Mig kills on this one at Homestead AFB in the mid-80s. Anyone know the story behind the kill stars?
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And during an Air Defense exercise, some VT ANG F-4Ds along with two CAF 425 Sqdn Voodoos at Westover ARB around 1982
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And one more, this time a Hooligan job at Pease AFB around 1982
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some F-4c's from klamath falls Or USA. 1988

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this thread seemed to be missing some of these:

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A few Recce birds, Kodachromes this time

91TRS/67 TRW at CFB Cold Lake, 29 September 1984
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Pretty one from the 187 TRG MS ANG at Meridian, MS., 23 March 1990
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Very subdued USMC RF-4B Phantom from VMFP-3 at Stewart AP, NY
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p6025 wrote:this thread seemed to be missing some of these:
Yes, they did Paul. 8 Hikotai now flies F-2's.
Thanks for posting.

Continuing on from the recce theme, the plane in Spain:
All shot on 1 October 2001 at Torrejon.

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Then a pair of Greeks at phantastic Tanagra, 13 September 2008.

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one that Slijfie saw in action, seen at AMARG last month
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and some others seen during my trip
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for Tomh:

preserved 66-0267/OY F-4D 1934 Homestead JARB as '60-0267' two MiG kills
heavily damaged by hurrican Andrew 24aug92, rebuilt with parts of F-4C 63-7574

September 9 Capt John A. Madden, Jr. Capt C.B. DeBellevue F-4D 66-0267 OY Olds 01 AIM-9 MiG-19
September 9 Capt J.A. Madden, Jr. Capt C.B. DeBellevue F-4D 66-0267 OY Olds 01 AIM-9 MiG-19

During Linebacker strikes on September 9, 1972, a flight of four F-4Ds on MiGCAP west of Hanoi shot down three MiGs. Two were MiG-19s downed by Capt John A. Madden, Jr. and his WSO Capt DeBellevue. For Madden, the victories constituted his first and second MiG kills, but for DeBellevue they were numbers five and six, moving him up as the leading MiG destroyer of the war and elevating him to "Ace" status. When DeBellevue acquired the MiGs on radar, the flight maneuvered to attack. Madden and DeBellevue made the first move. They got a visual on the MiG about 5 miles out on final approach with his gear and flaps down. Getting a lock on him, they fired missiles but they missed. They were coming in from the side-rear and slipped up next to that MiG no more than 500 feet apart. He got a visual on us, snatched up his flaps and hit afterburner, accelerating out. It became obvious we weren't going to get another shot at the MiG.[13]

DeBellevue describes the next two engagements as follows: "We acquired the MiG's on radar and positioned as we picked them up visually. We used a slicing low-speed yo-yo to position behind the MiG-19's and started turning hard with them. We fired one AIM-9 missile which detonated 25 feet from one of the MiG-19's. We switched the attack to the other MiG-19 and one turn later we fired an AIM-9 at him. I observed the missile impact the tail of the MiG. The MiG continued normally for the next few seconds, then began a slow roll and spiraled downward, impacting the ground with a large fireball."[14]

Madden and DeBellevue returned to their base thinking they had destroyed only the second MiG-19. Only later did investigation reveal that they were the only aircrew to shoot at a MiG-19 which crashed and burned on the runway at Phuc Yen that day. That gave them two MiG-19 kills for the day and brought DeBellevue's total to six MiG kills, the most earned during the war.
During his combat tour, DeBellevue logged 550 combat hours while flying 220 combat missions, 96 of which were over North Vietnam. His skill as a weapon systems officer was recognized when he and the other two Air Force "Aces", Ritchie and Feinstein, received the 1972 Mackay Trophy.[16] He also received the Veterans of Foreign Wars' Armed Forces Award and the Eugene M. Zuckert Achievement Award.
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You're the man, S&B Extra-thanks so much for the info on 66-0267. Here's one for you
RF-4C 65-0847 12TRS/460TRW at Tan Son Nhut AB, Vietnam, 1969. Note "Spook" on the splitter plate. This aircraft was shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Cambodia 22 July 1971
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F-4C 63-7568 136FIS/107FIG NY ANG at Niagara Falls, NY 14 July 1984
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