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From: plains!umn-cs!LOCAL!thornley@uunet.UU.NET (David H. Thornley)
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Subject: Re: F-14 went to Viet Nam????
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Date: 12 Jan 91 01:32:32 GMT
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From: plains!umn-cs!LOCAL!thornley@uunet.UU.NET (David H. Thornley)
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")

I've got a reference book here that says that the first production F-14s
were delivered in October 1972, and the first operational takeoff was
off the _Enterprise_, from VF-2, in March 1974.  Unfortunately, I am not
as sure of U.S.N. activity in the final stages of the Vietnam War.  Did
the Navy fly A-6 sorties in support of ARVN in the 1975 conquest?  That
would seem to be the only opportunity for F-14 combat missions over
Vietnam.  (In any case, the events in the *novel* "Flight of the
Intruder" were obviously not 1974 or later, and therefore F-14s have
no business in the *book*; I don't know what changes the moviemakers
might have made.)

DHT