"TIGER'S CLAW"
F-8C Crusader BuNo 146961 #103 / AK
USS INTREPID (CVS-11), CVW-10
Vietnam, September 9th, 1968. LT Athony Nargi
VA-76 "Spirits" Attack Squadron 76
USS FORRESTAL (CVA 59), CVG-1. 1957
VF-123 "The Blue Racers"
USS PHILIPPINE SEA (CV 47), ATG-2. 1955
VF-51 "Screaming Eagles"
USS VALLEY FORGE (CV 45), CVG-5
Pilot LTJG LEONARD HOWARD PLOG
3d July 1950 shot down North Korean YAK-9
VF-51 "Screaming Eagles"
USS VALLEY FORGE (CV 45), CVG-5
Pilot LTJG LEONARD HOWARD PLOG
3d July 1950 shot down North Korean YAK-9
Fighter Squadron 162 (VF-162) "The Hunters"
Established on 1 September 1960 . disestablished on 29 January 1971
USS INTREPID (CVA 11), CVG-6 1960-1963 (operating F4D-1)
USS ORISKANY (CVA 34), CVW-16 1963-1969 (operating F-8A & F-8E)
USS TICONDEROGA (CVS 14), CVW-16 1969-1970 (operating F-8J)
USS SHANGRI-LA (CVS 38), CVW-8 1970 (operating F-8H)
FIGHTER SQUADRON 162 (VF-162) "The Hunters"
USS ORISKANY (CVA 34), CVW-16
Vietnam, Oct.9, 1966. Cdr Richard M. Bellinger shot down a MiG-21
USAAF (WW2)
350th Fighter Squadron, 353rd Fighter Group
Pilot Lt. Bayard C. Auchincloss
FIGHTER SQUADRON EIGHT FOUR
VF-84 "Vagabonds / Jolly Rogers"
USS Independence (CVA 62). CVG-7, 1962
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE (WW2)
302nd Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group “Tuskegee Airmen"
Ramitelli Airfield, Italy. 1944
RED TAILS Thunderbolt, flown by 1st Lt Gwynne Walker Peirson
FIGHTER SQUADRON ONE ELEVEN (VF-111) "Sundowners"
USS Intrepid (CVS-11), CVW-10
Vietnam, June 4th, 1968 . February 8th, 1969
Pilot Lt Anthony Nargi, shot down a MiG-21 on Sep. 9th, 1968