A VF-161 F-4 Phantom, flying off USS Midway, shot down a North Vietnamese MiG-17 on January 12, 1973, the last enemy kill of the Vietnamese War, making a total of 57 MiGs shot down by Navy and Marine pilots during the war. Shown here, a VF-161 Phantom l
Categories: 100 Years of Naval Aviation
 
 
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