"TIGER'S CLAW"
F-8C Crusader BuNo 146961 #103 / AK
USS INTREPID (CVS-11), CVW-10
Vietnam, September 9th, 1968. LT Athony Nargi
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
IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (AVIATION) . 大日本帝國海軍
三菱A6M3零式艦上戦闘機22型
CPO Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, 251 Kokutai. Rabaul, 1943
IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (AVIATION) . 大日本帝國海軍
三菱A6M2零式艦上戦闘機21型
PO2/C Yoshisuke Arita, Tainan Kokutai. Denpasar, Bali, February 1942
IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (AVIATION) . 大日本帝國海軍
三菱A6M3零式艦上戦闘機32型 谷水竹雄
CPO Takeo Tanimizu, Tainan Kokutai. Tainan, September 1944
IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (AVIATION) . 大日本帝國海軍
三菱A6M3零式艦上戦闘機22型
CPO Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, 251 Kokutai. Rabaul, 1943
IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY . 日本海軍
三菱A6M2零式艦上戦闘機21型
Pilot CPO Saburo Sakai
Tainan Kokutai. Lae, July 1942
IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY . 日本海軍
三菱A6M2零式艦上戦闘機21型
Pilot CPO Saburo Sakai
Tainan Kokutai. Lae, July 1942
FIGHTER SQUADRON EIGHT FOUR
VF-84 "Vagabonds / Jolly Rogers"
USS Independence (CVA 62). CVG-7, 1962
IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY . 日本海軍
中島 A6M2-N 二式水上戦闘機
マノクワリ西パプア州
Cpo Hidenori Matsunaga, 934 Kokutai.
Manokwari, late 1943
IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY . 日本海軍
三菱A6M3零式艦上戦闘機22型
LCDR Saburo Shindo, 582 Kokutai.
Buin, June 1943