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From: gwh%tornado.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: F-14 went to Viet Nam????
Summary: Only _really_ briefly...
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.013129.25807@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 12 Jan 91 01:31:29 GMT
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From: gwh%tornado.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)

In article <1991Jan10.025037.3027@cbnews.att.com> ron@hpfcso.fc.hp.com (Ron Miller) writes:
>An assertion has been made over in rec.arts.movies that the F-14 was
>deployed to carriers whose A-6 aircraft were flying missions in Viet Nam. 
>(Subject is the movie "Flight of the Intruder")
>
>Can anyone shed some facts and references on the subject?
>Dates, perhaps?

Uhh, i doubt it.
In September 1974, VF-1 Wolfpack and VF-2 Bounty Hunters deployed F-14's for
the first time on the USS Enterprise.  Previous test cruises with the aircraft
had been made, but none that went anywhere near southeast asia.

	On that first cruise, the Enterprise briefly covered the evacuation
of Saigon as the war ended.  Thus, it is possible that F-14's flew over the
country of Vietnam at some point...but I really doubt that they did.  I don't
recall US forces making any strikes at that time.

	They were most certainly NOT deployed earlier when the strikes against
North Vietnam were going on.  The first F-14 flew Dec. 21, 1970, and crashed
9 days later on the 30th due to a hydraulic line failure.  The first carrier
tests weren't until June 1972.  We were quite disengaged by that time, i think.


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