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F-8E Crusader, Cdr Harold Marr & Lt(jg) Phil Vampatella, VF-211 “Fighting Checkmates”, USS Hancock, June 1966

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"The MiG Killers"

F-8 "Crusader"

F-8E Bureau Number (BuNo) 150924
flown by CDR Harold L. Marr, Commanding Officer VF-211 “Flying Checkmates”
on 12 June 1966 to achieve the first F-8 Crusader
aerial victory by shooting down a North Vietnamese MiG-17 “Fresco”
and by Lieutenant (junior grade) Philip “Phil” V. Vampatella to
shoot down another MiG-17 on 21 June 1966.
USS Hancock, United States Navy

Artist: Gaëtan Marie