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From: turner@udecc.engr.udayton.edu (Staff- Bob S Turner)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: F-14 went to Viet Nam????
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.012735.8482@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 14 Jan 91 01:27:35 GMT
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From: turner@udecc.engr.udayton.edu (Staff- Bob S Turner)
In article <1991Jan10.025037.3027@cbnews.att.com> ron@hpfcso.fc.hp.com (Ron Miller) writes:
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>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?

I don't have any definite facts, but I doubt the F-14 saw any combat in
Vietnam. I know the A-6 had been deployed in the mid 60's.  I remember
pictures of A-6s being escorted by F-4s and I think F-8.

The F-14 on the other hand wasn't deployed until 1972 or later. It was
the results of taking the few good aspects of F-111B (Navy TFX) and 
the F-4 Vietnam experience. I don't think Grumman started engineering the
F-14 until 1968. (Why did the A-12 project seem to have all the stench 
of the TFX to me? Its like deja vu all over again.(Quote by Yogi Berra))

So in total its possible that  F-14s may have been around during the evacuation
of Saigon in 1975, but I really doubt that it saw combat action with A-6's.


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