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A McDonnell F3H-2N / F-3C Demon 133600 "207" of the USN's VF-124 "Gunfighters" while serving as a fleet replacement squadron @ NAS Moffett Field ca. '58.

McDonnell F3H-2N Demon BuNo 133600 of VF-124 ‘Moonshiners’ Modex 207 code D of CVG-12 assigned to the carrier USS Lexington (CVA-16) 1957 www.gonavy.jp/CVG-CVG12f.html CVG-12 (D) CVA-16 USS LEXINGTON April 19, 1957 – October 17, 1957 (WestPac) www.gonavy.jp/navy/sqn/VF124a.html VF-124 ‘Moonshiners’ with F3H-2/F3H-2N were on the above deployment using side numbers in the 200 range. McDonnell F3H-2N Demon BuNo 133600 1956: VF-124 as D-207. 10/16/1956: Crashed. (October 16, 1956)

This Douglas RB-66C Destroyer (USAF Ser. No. 53-387) would be converted into an EB-66C Electronic Warfare aircraft. Sadly, while flying with the 432rd TRW, 41st TRS it would be shot down on February 4, 1967 by an SA-2 Surface-to-Air-Missile (SAM) (NATO Designation: Guideline) near Bac Kan/Phu Tong, North Vietnam, with the loss of three (Russell A. Poor, Herb Doby, Woodrow H. Wilburn) of the six crew aboard (Jack Williamson Bomar, John O. Davies, and John Fer became Prisoners of War, released in the Spring 1973.) See: www.pownetwork.org/bios/b/b092.htm www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/13489/HERB-DOBY www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/41274/RUSSELL-A-POOR www.millionmonkeytheater.com/B-66.html www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2014/12/tfr294.html

One in a series of shots taken during a test launch of a Raytheon AAM-N-6 "Sparrow III" air-to-air missile (later AIM-7C) from a McDonnell F3H-2N/2 Demon (BuNo. 137010) over the Pt. Mugu Pacific Missile Test Range ca. 1958.