The A-4 Skyhawk was also known as the airplane that ... and placed their bombs danger-close to save numerous soldiers and marines who were duking it out with the NVA regulars and VC insurgents.

Howard Foote’s mind as the enlisted flight mechanic climbed into an unarmed A4M Skyhawk in the middle of ... “Foote joined the Marines to go to the Corps’ Enlisted Commissioning Program ...

While diminutive, the Skyhawk was popular ... off from the Navy’s Essex-class carriers, so the A-4 did not go away entirely. The Marines never adopted the A-7 during or after Vietnam, the ...

Aside from his time in gliders, Foote was also said to have had about 100 hours of A-4 Skyhawk simulator time. With what he knew about the jet in order to maintain it, along with his strong ...

While diminutive, the Skyhawk was popular ... off from the Navy’s Essex-class carriers, so the A-4 did not go away entirely. The Marines never adopted the A-7 during or after Vietnam, the ...

The Marines and Navy used the Skyhawk — which ... The last Skyhawk was produced in 1979. One notable A-4 Skyhawk pilot was John McCain. The late U.S. senator from Arizona was leading a bombing ...

An A-4 Skyhawk is 24,500 lbs when fully armed ... the C-130s began making medical evacuations of wounded combat marines and bringing supplies. The rolling loads proved too much.

While it’s the carrier variant of the F-35, “what we Marines have found is it’s ... F9F-8 Cougar, A-4 Skyhawk and AV-8B Harrier. It earned five Presidential Unit Citations – the highest ...

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk was the kind of attack airplane that comes along once, maybe twice in a generation. A deadly accurate ground attack jet with the room for many tons of ordinance under its ...

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk was a single-seat, single-engine attack jet that was first delivered to the United States Navy in 1956. As one of America's aircraft that could carry a tactical nuclear ...